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Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… Written in a Country Churchyard . Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Futility Despair Self-indulgence Self-doubt Salvation Solitude Community In almost every way, melancholy was always the very antithesis of sociability. The … genuinely terrifies, fills that ‘darkness’ with horrific visions and self-doubts, not least concerning God and one’s own salvation, and has the tendency to drive its victims towards self-destruction: ‘ When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, … Gray in such works as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . … Futility … Despair … Self-indulgence … Self-doubt … Salvation … Solitude … Community … Melancholy …

Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]

… with his brother Charles. He advocated itinerant preaching, hymn-singing, strict moral discipline and insisted on salvation by faith alone. He masterfully organized the Methodist societies. George Whitefield (1714-1770) was one of … of the Established Church, that is Dissenters and/or Catholics. According to some bishops, the Methodists' insistence on salvation by faith and their field-preaching recalled the Protectorate and therefore tainted Wesley and his followers: …

Parish churches [ Institutions ]

… into, seeming rather to make self-interest the motive for the exercising their profession than the eternal happiness and salvation of men’s souls. […] I think the precept and practice in most (that is, in too many of us) is an opposite to … Northumberland’s Grand Jury assembled in St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on righteousness as a prerequisite for salvation. Normally, of course, audiences were of humbler standing. At Holy Trinity, Hull, on 12 February 1792, vicar …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… 5 and 10) until 1792. In the second half of the century, debating societies constantly discussed religious issues (salvation, the afterlife) and political and international current affairs (the fortunes of war, prospects of war and …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… value he placed on individual friendships, Keats’s private correspondence sketches something like a secular system of salvation rooted, on the one hand, in a clear-eyed understanding of the transient nature of human existence, and, on the …