[…] Calvinism. It affirmed the doctrines of predestination and human depravity but not of limited atonement and perseverance. English Calvinists, the “low” church or Puritans, opposed the Articles and produced the Westminster Confession (1643) that […]
[…] the edge of the American frontier would, among many, many other things, need to have known the English Bible (and the Hebrew culture it represents); its many kinds of stylistic parallelisms and poetic forms; […]
[…] of being consistent to the point where church membership would dwindle away to the vanishing point, or breaking down the system in order to keep the churches going, the New England ministers held a […]
[…] that a major portion of this manuscript was published by Mrs. Sam (Arlene) Hess in a souvenir newspaper, the “Friendship, N.Y., Sesqui-Centennial Times,” July 25-31, 1965. This was brought to the attention of all […]
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[…] The Father was “a God not only possessing body and parts, but flesh and bones, and si news, and all the attributes, organs, senses, and affections of a perfect man.” Logically, he argued, “beings […]
[…] seer stones. When Davis was still in Poughkeepsie and developing his newfound skills in clairvoyance, an “old English gentleman” by the name of Dr. Maryatt came for a visit and “brought an egg-shaped white […]
[…] Palmyra, the Age of Reason was a documented topic of conversation in the village. For example, a newspaper column on “The Effects of Infidelity” was printed in the Palmyra Register in 1820, when Joseph […]
[…] nonconformists in England had been perse cuted. When asked if religion could ever be a justification for breaking a criminal law, Taylor replied that it could in a country that had a constitutional guarantee […]
[…] to southern Alberta, and most of them brought only one wife. Thus, in 1888, when the Lethbridge News and the Canadian government began accusing the Mormons of practicing polygamy, they insisted that they were […]