The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion

Name: The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion
Brand: SUNY Press
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Smith, John Howard

0 - Default Title

Description

A history of the Sandemanians, a little-known but ultimately influential Christian sect in colonial America.Some thought them dangerous, others credited them with recovering original Christianity. The Sandemanians, a sect with roots in the turmoil of eighteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism, espoused a radical theology that influenced the development of American Christianity. Founder John Glas blended elements of fundamentalist New Testament Christianity with Enlightenment philosophy to create what he believed to be "the perfect rule of the Christian religion." The history and legacy of the Sandemanians are given full attention in these pages, which reveal the origins of the sect in Scotland and follow its greatest proselyte, Robert Sandeman, across the Atlantic to New England. Author John Howard Smith shows how such a minor sectarian movement could create so much controversy at the time of the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution. The churches Sandeman established were eventually crushed by the Revolution, their adherents scattered, never to grow into a denomination. The Sandemanians are little known today, yet elements of their theology played a key role in the future of American Christianity.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 248
Release Date:: 2010-01-01
Publication Date:: 2010-01-01
Publisher:: SUNY Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1438425082
ISBN13:: 9781438425085
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 408 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 15 cm

Buy on Amazon

Currently sold out