The Sacred Flame Of Love Analysis

The Sacred Flame of Love is a revision and expansion of Owen’s dissertation, it’s a detailed historical account on the development and evolution of the Methodists church in Georgia during the nineteenth-century. The author selected the state of Georgia to do an analysis of social religious changes in the nineteenth-century south. To develop his analysis the author focused on five watershed decades. The 1800s, 1820s, 1840s, 1860s, and 1890s. The author notes that over the course of time Methodist transformed from a denomination which represented a few, somewhat unified group of white and black Georgians to a larger, more visible and prosperous unit. Christopher states this led to increased divisions alone lines of class, race, and doctrine,
so that by the late nineteenth-century Georgia Methodism had lost not only its cohesiveness, but also its ability to attract new members at the past rate it had in the past.