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5 days ago · Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) The “New Divinity” theologians launched a process of historical re-interpretation. At the beginning of the revival movements of the nineteenth century, which they helped ignite, they began to interpret those disparate revivals through the lens of the Great Awakening.
1 day ago · Harriet Beecher Stowe, an influential American author, had a fascinating early life that shaped her future works. 01 Harriet was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, into a prominent family of preachers and educators. 02 Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a well-known Calvinist preacher, and her mother, Roxana Foote Beecher, was a ...
4 days ago · Ordained and college-educated ministers such as Lyman Beecher made it their mission to promote revivalism as a counterweight to the Deism of some of the Founding Fathers and the atheism of the French Revolution.
5 days ago · First, in #9, the incendiary preacher Lyman Beecher was the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” helped set a match not to an Ursuline convent, but to the Civil War.
5 days ago · Lyman Beecher, recounting the collapse of the Standing Order, says “For years we of the standing order had been the scoff and by-word of politicians, sectarians, and infidels” (401). Diminishing cultural power opened possibilities for other types of influencer to emerge.
3 days ago · Introduction. In 1848, Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) gathered over 150 men and women at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York for the first women’s rights convention in American history. The convention adopted the following document as a summary statement of the grievances of American ...
4 days ago · Laurence Moore claims that “Beecher may very well best illustrate how the ardent Protestant became the consummate consumer, endlessly ‘striving after stimulative pleasures, the gratification of each new want.’|” He had a special talent, Moore argues, in making “his middle-class congregation luxuriate in their emotions, to weep and to take pleasure in the many ways they could imagine ...
