Author : Rimi Xhemajli
Release : 2021-06-22
Genre : Religion
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The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders write by Rimi Xhemajli. This book was released on 2021-06-22. The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders, Rimi Xhemajli shows how a small but passionate movement grew and shook the religious world through astonishing signs and wonders. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, early American Methodist preachers, known as circuit riders, were appointed to evangelize the American frontier by presenting an experiential gospel: one that featured extraordinary phenomena that originated from God’s Spirit. In employing this evangelistic strategy of the gospel message fueled by supernatural displays, Methodism rapidly expanded. Despite beginning with only ten official circuit riders in the early 1770s, by the early 1830s, circuit riders had multiplied and caused Methodism to become the largest American denomination of its day. In investigating the significance of the supernatural in the circuit rider ministry, Xhemajli provides a new historical perspective through his eye-opening demonstration of the correlation between the supernatural and the explosive membership growth of early American Methodism, which fueled the Second Great Awakening. In doing so, he also prompts the consideration of the relevance and reproduction of such acts in the American church today.