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1 - The Protestant frame of mind in the eighteenth century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2010

W. R. Ward
W. R. Ward
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University of Durham
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THE CIRCULATION OF INFORMATION: (1) LETTERS

This study of international religious revival in the Protestant world in the eighteenth century may without paradox commence with a postscript, perhaps the most breathless postscript of the century:

P.S. As to the churches in Germany, you'll inquire how their discipline is exercised, and particularly the discipline of the Lutheran churches, their worship and government; how the affair of the union between them and the Calvinists stands. All you please to send anent the present state of the Barnavelt and Arminian party and Cocceians in Holland, with the conditions of religion there, will be most acceptable. You will likewise be fond to know the present numbers of the confessors and new converts in France; and, if you have as much time, I would fain know the state and issue of that affair between the Cardinal Noailles and the Bishops who join him anent Father Quesnel's tenets, and the rest of the clergy in France who adhere to the Pope's Bull; and if there be any numbers in France that are in any way breathing after a reformation, as we hear there are. Anything anent the success of the Gospel in the Dutch and English plantations, in the East Indies and the Danish missionaries in Malabar; of the state of the Greek churches … May I expect anything anent the much forgotten Jews in Africa, Asia, or Europe? […]

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The Protestant Evangelical Awakening , pp. 1 - 53
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1992

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