Raising the Roof: Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response, and Early Methodist Religiosity
Raising the Roof: Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response, and Early Methodist Religiosity
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掀起屋顶：赞美诗的演唱、反卫理公会的反应和早期卫理公会的宗教信仰
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2012
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Brett C. McInelly
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Brett C. McInelly
本文探讨了一些方式赞美诗告知卫理公会复兴。我认为，赞美诗可以更好地理解为约翰和查尔斯卫斯理和他们的追随者之间的复杂谈判的网站，因为兄弟试图引导运动远离宗教热情的指控。赞美诗释放的情感力量需要各种各样的约束，这样赞美诗的演唱才能以可控的方式满足强烈的皈依感受，同时为这种感受提供内容。赞美诗达到这一点，部分是通过为歌手创造一种认同的体验（正如肯尼斯·伯克所描述的那样）;也就是说，歌手认同赞美诗的抒情和节奏品质，从而确认他们所感受到的精神冲动，但并不总是表达出来。此外，通过质疑主流启蒙宗教的合理性，赞美诗发挥了挑战反卫理公会的理由的作用，尽管并不总是成功的。像其他功能的复兴，如露天讲道和奠定部，唱赞美诗产生争议;矛盾的是，这一争议提供了很多的能量，最终维持卫理公会运动，并帮助确定个人卫理公会的信仰。
This paper explores some of the ways hymns informed the Methodist revival. I argue that the hymns can be better understood as the site of a complex negotiation between John and Charles Wesley and their followers, as the brothers attempted to steer the movement away from charges of religious enthusiasm. The emotional power the hymns unleashed required various kinds of constraint so that hymn singing fed the intense feelings of conversion in controlled ways while providing the feelings with content. The hymns achieved this, in part, by creating for singers an experience of identification (as described by Kenneth Burke); that is, singers identified with the lyrical and rhythmic qualities of the hymns, thereby confirming spiritual impulses they felt but could not always express. In addition, by questioning the rationality of mainstream Enlightenment religion, the hymns functioned, though not always successfully, to challenge the grounds on which the anti-Methodists mounted their campaign against Methodism. Like other features of the revival, such as open-air preaching and lay ministry, hymn singing generated controversy; paradoxically, this controversy provided much of the energy that ultimately sustained the Methodist movement and helped to define the faith of individual Methodists.