The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833"This book examines the demise of one Massachusetts intellectual elite, the Congregational Standing Order, and the rise of another, the Boston Brahmins, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Peter S. Field traces this division within the culturally dominant class to the emergence of a new group of wealthy urban merchants, who funded Brahmin efforts to create America's first secular high culture. With the founding of the Monthly Anthology, the establishment of the exclusive Boston Athenaeum, and the takeover of Harvard College, the merchant-backed Brahmins constructed a competing locus of cultural authority against the claims of the orthodox ministry." --Book Jacket. |
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... Christian character , rather than the personal experience and display of conversion , and thus came to doubt the doctrine of universal predestination . See Williston Walker , A History of the Christian Church ( 1919 ; rev . ed . , New ...
... Christian character , rather than the personal experience and display of conversion , and thus came to doubt the doctrine of universal predestination . See Williston Walker , A History of the Christian Church ( 1919 ; rev . ed . , New ...
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... Christ in Lincoln , Massachusetts , delivered a plea for tolerance and un- derstanding in the keynote sermon to the convention in 1815. " There is a principle which ought to be recognized by all Christians that one Christian had just as ...
... Christ in Lincoln , Massachusetts , delivered a plea for tolerance and un- derstanding in the keynote sermon to the convention in 1815. " There is a principle which ought to be recognized by all Christians that one Christian had just as ...
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... Christianity . New Haven , Conn . , 1989 . The Sacred Cause of Liberty : Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolu ... Christian History and Civil Religion . Portland , Ore . , 1984 . Hersh , Blanche . The Slavery of Sex : Feminist ...
... Christianity . New Haven , Conn . , 1989 . The Sacred Cause of Liberty : Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolu ... Christian History and Civil Religion . Portland , Ore . , 1984 . Hersh , Blanche . The Slavery of Sex : Feminist ...
Contents
An Overview | 14 |
The Birth of the Brahmins | 47 |
Toward a Secular High Culture | 82 |
Copyright | |
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