By Jerome Dean Mahaffey
ISBN-10: 1602580847
ISBN-13: 9781602580848
ISBN-10: 1932792880
ISBN-13: 9781932792881
The 3rd quantity within the experiences in Rhetoric & faith sequence, Preaching Politics lines the miraculous and lasting impression of 1 of yankee history's so much interesting and enigmatic figures--George Whitefield. Jerome Mahaffey explores George Whitefield's position in making a "rhetoric of group" that effectively validated a standard worldview one of the colonial cultures. utilizing a rigorous approach to rhetorical research, Mahaffey cogently argues that George Whitefield directed the evolution of an American collective spiritual id that lay beneath the rising political ideology that fueled the yankee Revolution.
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Were generally spent in acts of devotion, reading . . practical books and I constantly went to public worship twice a day. Anglican piety in pre-Methodist England consisted of assent to an inherited religious orthodoxy rather than any personal sense of religious connection. Thus, Whitefield endeavored to make himself worthy of his calling in the only way he knew how, dedicating himself to every aspect of religious duty available to him. Yet this performance of duty did not resolve his inner tension or settle his sense of identity.
Whitefield departed on January 2, 1738, and arrived in Georgia in May after a voyage filled with delays due to inclement weather. His stay in Georgia, although not without some points of interest, was brief and largely uneventful (May 7 to September 4, 1738). As Methodism was not well received by the Georgian settlers, they were also whitefield 39 suspicious of Whitefield upon his arrival, but he soon won them over. As the newly appointed Anglican minister to the Georgia colony, he planned to establish a parish in Savannah and eventually erect a meeting house, a plan that was met with approval by the people of Savannah.
God soon showed me; for in reading a few lines further, that “true religion was union of the soul with God and Christ formed within us,” a ray of Divine light was instantaneously darted in upon my soul and from that moment, but not till then, did I know that I must be a new creature. For Whitefield, becoming a new creature would require a conversion experience, an event not necessarily eschewed by Anglicans, but 28 CHAPTER TWO neglected and much more closely associated with Puritan practices in England.
Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation (Studies in Rhetoric and Religion) by Jerome Dean Mahaffey
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