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The Travels And Gospel Labors Of Joseph Thomas, Minister Of The Gospel And Elder In The Christian Church, Joseph Thomas

Stone-Campbell Books

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The Vision Made Plain: A Sermon On Election And Reprobation., Abner Jones

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.

Declaration And Address Of The Christian Association Of Washington, Thomas Campbell

Stone-Campbell Books

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Phantastes Chapter 8: Faust, Goethe

German Romantic and Other Influences

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), was a German writer associated with the Sturm and Drang (Storm and Stress) literary movement. Faust 1 (1806) has Mephistopheles, a minion for the devil, seduce Faust into selling his soul to the devil. Faust, in turn, seduces a young woman, ultimately destroying her. In Faust 2 (1831), Faust goes on a series of adventures, meets some fairies, and finally atones for some of his sins and is able to enter Heaven.

Prophesies Concerning Christs 2d Coming, Isaac Newton

Rare Books at James White Library

Written sometime in the early 1680s, in English and Latin with quotations in Greek and Hebrew, c. 19,367 words, 40 pp. on 5 quarto signatures

For more information see Kimakwa, Sarah, "James White Library Hidden Treasures Isaac Newton: Early Adventist Pioneer? A Physicist’s Perspective" (2014) at https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/library-pubs/13/

The Christian Commonwealth: Or, The Civil Policy Of The Rising Kingdom Of Jesus Christ, John Eliot

Zea E-Books in American Studies

John Eliot (1604-1690), the Puritan missionary to the New England Indians, developed this plan of political organization for the Christianized tribes that he converted. In the late 1640s, he adapted it for English use and sent a manuscript copy to England, where it appeared in print 10 years later, in 1659, following the death of Cromwell and before the accession of Charles II.

Eliot’s “Preface” to the work was far more radical and troublesome than the utopian theocracy described in the main body. “Much is spoken of the rightful Heir of the Crown of England, and the unjustice of casting …

Phantastes Chapter 21: The Book Of Judges, Unknown

German Romantic and Other Influences

The Book of Judges is the seventh book of the Hebrew and the Christian Bible (Old Testament). The line quoted is from Chapter 12:3. Judges tells the stories of the heroes (judges) who restore the Israelites after they have fallen. The pattern of fall and rise is the pattern of Anodos’s experiences in Phantastes.