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Menorah Review (No. 46, Spring/Summer, 1999) Jan 1999

Menorah Review (No. 46, Spring/Summer, 1999)

Menorah Review

The Quintessential Other -- Were Jews Ignored by All? -- Critical Perspectives on Israel the 1990s: Politics, Society, Scholarship -- Early Spring -- From Auschwitz to Meaning Therapy -- Jews and Muslims Together -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999) Jan 1999

Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999)

Menorah Review

Physician-Assisted Suicide -- What Price Prejudice? -- The American Synagogue: Now and Then -- Amelek -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist's Corner -- King David -- A Good Life Now and Then -- Noteworthy Books


"Through The Eye Of A Needle": The Role Of Pietistic And Mystical Thought Among The Anglican Elite In The Eighteenth Century Lowcountry South, Samuel C. Smith Jan 1999

"Through The Eye Of A Needle": The Role Of Pietistic And Mystical Thought Among The Anglican Elite In The Eighteenth Century Lowcountry South, Samuel C. Smith

Faculty Dissertations

This dissertation examines the transmission and eventual manifestation of Christian pietistic and mystical thought into the Colonial and Revolutionary lowcountry South. The facilitators of this transmission include the Continental Pietists, who were themselves heavily influenced by the mystics, and British Evangelicals such as John Wesley and George Whitefield, who, even in their public denials of mysticism, nevertheless demonstrated its strong influence in their ministries. Mystical and pietistic expressions impacted the religious, social, and political life of the lowcountry more than has been previously recognized. Evangelical Pietism's mid-eighteenth century infusion prompted some to correctly recognize its subjective (i.e. inwardly focused and …


Menorah Review (No. 45, Winter, 1999) Jan 1999

Menorah Review (No. 45, Winter, 1999)

Menorah Review

The Timeless Value of Heschel -- Religion and Politics -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist's Corner -- What We Are, What We Have, What We Are Able To Do -- Mendelssohn, Reason and Religion -- Mordecai Kaplan and American Jewish Orthodoxy -- Noteworthy Books