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Hace 3 días · Entre los protagonistas de este Segundo Gran Despertar cabe destacar a Charles Finney, James Taylor, Lyman Beecher o Alexander Campbell.
Hace 6 días · Lyman Beecher was a student at Yale under President Timothy Dwight. He wrote, “Before he came, the college was in a most ungodly state. The college church was almost extinct. Most of the students were skeptical, and rowdies were plenty. Wine and liquors were kept in many rooms; intemperance, profanity, gambling, and licentiousness were common
18 de jun. de 2024 · The second and more conservative phase of the awakening (1810–25) centred in the Congregational churches of New England under the leadership of theologians Timothy Dwight, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel W. Taylor, and Asahel Nettleton.
12 de jun. de 2024 · There is no instance in the patriarchal age, of a woman offering sacrifice as an act of worship, and a symbol of prayer; and none in the tabernacle or temple service. On the contrary, when on account of great judgments, it was enjoined on females to pray, it was the wife apart, and the husband apart.
14 de jun. de 2024 · From the early days of the mass temperance movement, total abstinence from alcohol was promoted by some advocates, such as Presbyterian clergyman Lyman Beecher, who published Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance in 1827.
20 de jun. de 2024 · Henry Ward Beecher, liberal U.S. Congregational minister whose oratorical skill and social concern made him one of the most influential Protestant spokesmen of his time. He was an advocate for women’s suffrage, evolutionary theory, and scientific biblical criticism.
11 de jun. de 2024 · In 1960 he gave the Lyman-Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale and in 1963, with Paul Tillich, the Earl Lectures at Berkeley, CA. In 1980 he gave the annual Tawney Lecture. For many years he wrote a monthly column in the Methodist Recorder under the title 'Personally Speaking'.
