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  AllRefer.com - John Humphrey Noyes (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia
John Humphrey Noyes 1811–86, American reformer, founder of the Oneida community, b.
In 1846 they began the practice of complex marriage, a form of polygamy, but this so aroused their neighbors that Noyes was forced to flee.
By 1879 internal dissension had arisen and outside hostility became so strong that Noyes went to Canada, where he spent the rest of his life.
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 John Humphrey Noyes
Noyes was born a rebel, and was happily endowed with the temerity that such men require in order to achieve success.
Noyes himself had the courage to proclaim that he did not sin, and the grace to confess that Christ had absolved him....
At the same time Noyes the organiser, the lover of scientific method and order, was shocked by haphazard procreation, which often resulted in the birth of deformed or mentally deficient children.
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 John Humphrey Noyes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Humphrey Noyes (September 3, 1811 ;– April 13, 1886) was a U.S. utopian.
Noyes was born in Brattleboro, Vermont and studied at Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary and Yale Theological College.
After being forced to move from Noyes' home community of Putney, Vermont to New York by outraged citizens accusing his followers of adultery, the Oneida Community flourished in the 1850s and 1860s.
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 The Oneida Community - New York History Net
It is said that one of the reasons that Noyes adopted this doctrine was the fact that he could not believe that he was a sinner, since he could not summon up from within any feeling of deep guilt and despair.
Noyes, not wanting to become a useless martyr, and who by this time was viewed by the group as the Moses of the new dispensation who was going to lead them to the promised land, quickly purchased twenty-three acres of land that contained some buildings in Oneida, New York.
Noyes came to the conclusion that where an unwanted pregnancy occurred, there was a waste of the man's seed and that it was no different in practice to masturbation.
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 John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists
Noyes also believed that the millennium had actually arrived in 70 A.D. He based this on what he interpreted to be Christ's expectation that the millennium wou ld arrive within one generation of His death.
Complex marriage was essential to Noyes, because he felt that it moved the community beyond the traditionally divisive commitments to one partner or the family, and rais ed this love and loyalty inherent in those commitments to the level of the community, just as he envisioned it in Heaven.
Finally, John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists were responding, not just to the call of the West and the promise it held out, as Turner might have us believe, but just as Winthrop and the Puritans, to changing social conditions that undermined their understanding of themselves and their place in their society.
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 Life of John Humphrey Noyes, Volumes, IV - VI, The O.C. Part II
Noyes a party was given this evening for the benefit of the boys who got up the cows and drove them to pasture last summer and fall.  The boys chose partners, being made free to follow their hearts; they chose mostly adults.
Noyes thought patching the teeth was better than being unable to talk with ease and masticate the food; It was better for those who had lost their teeth to have new ones put in.
Noyes, who was away, returned to hear of two deaths as he stepped from the train, and found Andrews beguiling the ear of the Community by a course of lectures on "Universology." The events that followed were thus described by Mrs.
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 Free Love in Oneida (Foster) - CESNUR 2002
Noyes was indicted on two specific counts of adultery, and rather than face a possible lynching or conviction, he left the state, eventually forfeiting half his $2,000 bond.
Noyes described his ideal of the Kingdom of God, which he sought to implement at Putney and at Oneida, as an "absolute monarchy," with authority coming from the top, yet decisions tempered by the concerns of the membership below.
John Humphrey Noyes’s insistence on the primacy of his religious leadership was closely related to a second issue, the unorthodox sexual practices of the community and how they were to be administered.
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 The Oneida Community was founded by John Humphrey Noyes in upstate New York in 1848   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Noyes believed that man was able to live without sin in his life if he were in the perfect environment.
Noyes was the first to use the term "free love" and strongly encouraged the practice.
Noyes encouraged the most spiritually ascended followers to mate with each other in order to produce the most spiritual offspring.
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 JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES: The Putney Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
THE autumn of 1837 was pivotal for Noyes.
Noyes always held that her persuasiveness and argumentative power more than any other influence gained entrance for him and his doctrine into the New Haven Free Church, which became the cradle of Perfectionism.
Noyes afterward learned that Abigail had accompanied her brother-in-law, and had concealed her presence on the boat, a circumstance which chimed in suspiciously with his vision.
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 john humphrey noyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Noyes girded himself again for a battle with legality, and at last succeeded in releasing his comrades from their captivity.
Under these circumstances Noyes was compelled to study intently the relation of the law to the gospel of salvation from sin.
Noyes believed that these two doctrines, security and freedom from law, presented the central idea of the gospel of Christ, namely, salvation from sin by the power of God without the law.
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 Religious Movements Homepage: The Oneida Community
Noyes went on to spend a year at Andover Theological Seminary and then transferred to Yale Divinity School.
Noyes also wrote articles to be published in a periodical called the "Battle-Axe." As evidenced in his writings, Noyes was clearly convinced that he was God's earthly agent.
This assumption was made as a result of two of Noyes' particular teachings: one being that the second coming of Christ occurred in A.D. 70, and the other being that the group could bring in the millenial kingdom by their own accord.
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 John Humphrey Noyes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Humphrey Noyes (September 3, 1811 – April 13, 1886) was a (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) U.S. (An idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer) utopian.
Noyes was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Brattleboro, Vermont) Brattleboro, Vermont and studied at (A college in New Hampshire) Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary and Yale Theological College.
Their more controversial practices, including complex marriage, were later dropped; complex marriage itself was discontinued in 1879, and communistic ideals were also lost as the Oneida Community morphed into a corporation that today has annual sales of half a billion dollars.
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 Religious experience of John Humphrey Noyes,: Founder of the Oneida Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Noyes was a genius, but also one of the most controversial figures in the history of American utopias, described as a "Yankee Saint" by his supporters and denounced as a "Vermont Cassanova" by his detractors.
Noyes believed that the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and the human race was therefore now capable of reaching something akin to perfection.
But because Noyes and his followers were forced to flee Putney as a result of being prosecuted for adultery because of the practices of the community, it is hard to get past the complex marriage idea.
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 oneida perfectionists
Noyes believed that the Second Coming (the return of Jesus to earth) had occured in 70 A.D. "At that time, there was a primary resurrection and judgment in the spiritual world: it marked the beginning of the establishment of the Kingdom of God in the heavens.
Noyes established a small community at Putney, Vermont and assumed the role of unquestioned leader.
Noyes felt that the form of marriage at the time was deeply falted.
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 Around Town:
Young John Humphrey Noyes in 1831, at the age of twenty, in a statement to his mother and later to "his friends in private and to all who would hear him in public meetings," declared his new-found faith.
John Humphrey Noyes, the Community's leader throughout its life, was born in Vermont, where he attempted to establish a community in the town of Putney.
Noyes became deeply interested in what he called "stirpiculture," the idea of breeding superior children by encouraging the mating of the healthiest and most intelligent males and females.
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 Oneida Community
In 1848, John Humphrey Noyes and his followers founded the Oneida Community in Oneida, N.Y. Members of this Protestant religious sect referred to themselves as Perfectionists because they believed that spiritual perfection could be achieved by them in this world.
John Humphrey Noyes himself fathered several, including sons who were later very active in the affairs of Oneida, Ltd.
Among the promoters of change was young Pierrepont Noyes, one of the sons of John Humphrey Noyes.
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 John Humphrey Noyes and Hyper-Preterism - Keith Mathison  |  Critical Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John saw, when Satan was first bound and cast into the pit, thrones and judgment given to the martyrs of Christ, and they lived and reigned with him a thousand years, but the rest of the dead lived not.
Noyes, in other words, believed that a future aspect to the judgment and resurrection remains to be fulfilled even though the Second Coming, and the primary resurrection and judgment had already occurred in A.D. Mr.
Noyes believed the Second Coming of Christ occurred in A.D. He also believed that the millennium was inaugurated in A.D. 70 and that there was a secondary element of the resurrection and judgment yet to be fulfilled, but these same doctrines were held by other acknowledged nineteenth century hyper-preterist authors such as Russell and Hampden-Cook.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - John Humphrey Noyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Noyes, Eliot (1910–1977), American architect and industrial designer, retained as a consultant by the International Business Machines Corporation...
Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958), English poet, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
Noyes had three boyhood interests: the sea, astronomy, and poetry....
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 John Humphrey Noyes
NOYES, John Humphrey, religionist, born in Brattleborough, Vermont, 6 September, 1811; died in Niagara Falls, Canada, 13 April, 1886.
He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1830, and studied law, but subsequently took a theological course at Andover and Yale seminaries, and was licensed to preach in 1833.
Noyes edited the "Oneida Circular" in 1834-'40, in which he promulgated his views, and published "The Second Coming of Christ" (Wallingford, Connecticut, 1859); '" Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith" (1869); "History of American Socialism" (Philadelphia, 1870); and several expositions of the practices in his community.
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 oneida
Before learning of Noyes' radical ideas, one has to keep in mind that the Oneida Perfectionists were a commune; everything that was done was for the "good of the community," not for the good or need of the individual.
Most of the time one was put in front of a panel of their peers and subject to severe criticism.
Noyes himself would not know, he did not have to be subjected to this (as it is inappropriate to criticize your leader).
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 Alice Bunker Stockham and John Humphrey Noyes
America's gratitude to Noyes is best expressed in the fact that the only complete collection of his works is in the British Museum.
It would be twenty years after 'Tokology' before Sir John Woodroffe (using the nom de plume Arthur Avalon) would begin publishing his translations from the Sanskrit of the tantras, the scriptures of the sakti sects.
The Buddhists, Noyes and Dr. Stockham, for all practical purposes, abolished it altogether.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Free Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It also presents a complex portrait of the community's founder, John Humphrey Noyes, who demanded not only complete religious loyalty from his followers but also minute control over their sexual lives.
George Wallingford Noyes (1870-1941) was a nephew of Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes and the author of The Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Onedia Community and John Humphrey Noyes: The Putney Community.
Between 1834, when John Humphrey Noyes became a convert to religious Perfectionist ideas, and 1848, when his key followers started the Oneida Community in central New York state, the issue of Noyes's leadership primacy became a major topic of contention among Perfectionists.
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 Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, and nearly all of his original associates were converts of that revival.
The purpose of this book is to recount the personal experiences which led to the formation of the Putney Community.
A future book, it is hoped, after tracing the history of the Putney Community, will follow Noyes and his fellow-Perfectionists to their final home at Oneida, New York, and tell the story of their unique, daring, dramatic experiment in "Bible Communism."
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 John Humphrey Noyes  |  Study Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the course of my Bible studies my attention was arrested by Christ’s expression in John 21:22: "If I will that he [John] tarry till I come, what is that to thee." This seemed to imply that Jesus expected his disciple John to live until his second coming, and the disciples so construed it.
Noyes believed that he was a recipient of Divine inspiration.
Confident that the founders of Christianity were neither deceived nor mistaken we joyfully accept on their authority the fact that the Christ has already come the second time.
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 John Humphrey Noyes Books and Articles - Research John Humphrey Noyes at Questia Online Library
A Yankee Saint: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community
John Stuart Mill 169...came together in the person of John Stuart Mill, who was involved...
charismatic leadership of John Humphries Noyes, an unlicensed preacher educated at Andover Newton...sessions of self-criticism.
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Dr. Noyes is an extension specialist with expertise in the area of grain storage and Dr. Ron Noyes received the Kishida International Award in 2004.
Alfred Noyes died on 25 June 1958 and was buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery
Dick Noyes was a classic progressive who practiced his conviction that human goodwill and intelligence will lead to a better world of all.
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