Author: North Stonington (Conn. : Town). First Baptist ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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First Baptist Church, North Stonington, Connecticut
Author: North Stonington (Conn. : Town). First Baptist ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The Roots of Appalachian Christianity
Author: Elder John SparksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Appalachia's distinctive brand of Christianity has always been something of a puzzle to mainline American congregations. Often treated as pagan and unchurched, native Appalachian sects are labeled as ultraconservative, primitive, and fatalistic, and the actions of minority sub-groups such as "snake handlers" are associated with all worshippers in the region. Yet these churches that many regard as being outside the mainstream are living examples of America's own religious heritage. The emotional and experience-based religion that still thrives in Appalachia is very much at the heart of American worship. The lack of a recognizable "father figure" like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox compounds the mystery of Appalachia's religious origins. Ordained minister John Sparks determined that such a person must have existed, and his search turned up a man less literate, urbane, and well-known than Luther, Calvin, and Knox—but no less charismatic and influential. Shubal Stearns, a New England Baptist minister, led a group of sixteen Baptists—now dubbed "The Old Brethren" by Old School Baptists churches in Appalachia—from New England to North Carolina in the mid-eighteenth century. His musical "barking" preaching is still popular, and the association of churches that he established gave birth to many of the disparate denominations prospering in the region today. A man lacking in the scholarship of his peers but endowed with the eccentricities that would make their mark on Appalachian faith, Stearns has long been an object of shame among most Baptist historians. In The Roots of Appalachian Christianity, Sparks depicts an important religious figure in a new light. Poring over pages of out-of-print and little-used histories, Sparks discovered the complexity of Stearns's character and his impact on Appalachian Christianity. The result is a history not just of this leader but of the roots of a religious movement.
The Baptist Encyclopædia
Author: William CathcartPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385440823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Centennial Memorial of the First Baptist Church of Hartford, Connecticut, March 23d and 24th, 1890
Author: First Baptist Church (Hartford, Conn.)Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Anniversary ...
Author: American Baptist Publication SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Christian Review
Author: The Pastor Has Gorgeous Legs
Author: Lynne C. HoldenPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456765337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The author reflects on her thirty years as a pastor in various settings, both as a settled pastor and as Interim Pastor. She writes of her early life and her sense of Call at the age of thirteen yet unable to answer that Call for almost 30 years. The struggles of being a woman in a male dominated ecclesiastical world and other challenges which the author has overcome makes for fun but serious reflections.
Special Acts and Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut
Author: ConnecticutPublisher:
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Special Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut
Author: ConnecticutThe Baptist Encyclopaedia
Author: William CathcartPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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