Author: Noah BisbeePublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
An Oration, Delivered in the Baptist Meeting-house, in Richmond, N.H.
Author: Noah BisbeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of friends to evangelical truth
Author: An Oration, Delivered in the Baptist Meeting-House in Providence, July 4, A.D. 1795
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: ORATION
Author: SOLOMON. DROWNPublisher:
ISBN: 9780483913516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Baptists in America
Author: Thomas S. KiddPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199977542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches to publishing houses to charities to mission organizations, and have firmly established themselves in the mainstream of American culture. Yet the historical legacy of outsider status lingers, and the inherently fractured nature of their faith makes Baptists ever wary of threats from within as well as without. In Baptists in America, Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins explore the long-running tensions between church, state, and culture that Baptists have shaped and navigated. Despite the moment of unity that their early persecution provided, their history has been marked by internal battles and schisms that were microcosms of national events, from the conflict over slavery that divided North from South to the conservative revolution of the 1970s and 80s. Baptists have made an indelible impact on American religious and cultural history, from their early insistence that America should have no established church to their place in the modern-day culture wars, where they frequently advocate greater religious involvement in politics. Yet the more mainstream they have become, the more they have been pressured to conform to the mainstream, a paradox that defines--and is essential to understanding--the Baptist experience in America. Kidd and Hankins, both practicing Baptists, weave the threads of Baptist history alongside those of American history. Baptists in America is a remarkable story of how one religious denomination was transformed from persecuted minority into a leading actor on the national stage, with profound implications for American society and culture.
Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
From Revivals to Removal
Author: John A. Andrew, IIIPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033121X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the country. Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) and many others saw the debate as a battle over the soul of America. Alarmed and disturbed by the brashness of Jacksonian democracy, they feared that the still-young ideal of a stable, cohesive, deeply principled republic was under attack by the forces of individualism, liberal capitalism, expansionism, and a zealous blend of virtue and religiosity. A missionary, reformer, and activist, Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) was a central figure of neo-Calvinism in the early American republic. An intellectual and spiritual heir to the founding fathers and a forebear of American Victorianism, Evarts is best remembered today as the stalwart opponent of Andrew Jackson's Indian policies--specifically the removal of Cherokees from the Southeast. John A. Andrew's study of Evarts is the most comprehensive ever written. Based predominantly on readings of Evart's personal and family papers, religious periodicals, records of missionary and benevolent organizations, and government documents related to Indian affairs, it is also a portrait of the society that shaped-and was shaped by-Evart's beliefs and principles. Evarts failed to tame the powerful forces of change at work in the early republic, Evarts did manage to shape broad responses to many of them. Perhaps the truest measure of his influence is that his dream of a government based on Christian principles became a rallying cry for another generation and another cause: abolitionism.