Author: Robert Baylor Semple
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Robert B Semple
Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Revealed anew to a whole new generation of Baptists, this book reveals the true history of the Baptist Church in Virginia. Baptism in order to be right with God. Rejection of Calvinism. In other words, the Baptist Church in Virginia was built by the labors of many men who loved God, and sought to follow His commandments, but many of whom would be labeled as heretics by today's Baptists. The question now stands: Is today's Baptist Church descended from heretics, or were their spiritual ancestors right, and today's Baptists heretics? Don't let modern-day revisionist historians fool you. Read the true story for yourself, written by a man with personal acquaintance with the Baptist pioneers.

Author: Robert B Semple
Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Revealed anew to a whole new generation of Baptists, this book reveals the true history of the Baptist Church in Virginia. Baptism in order to be right with God. Rejection of Calvinism. In other words, the Baptist Church in Virginia was built by the labors of many men who loved God, and sought to follow His commandments, but many of whom would be labeled as heretics by today's Baptists. The question now stands: Is today's Baptist Church descended from heretics, or were their spiritual ancestors right, and today's Baptists heretics? Don't let modern-day revisionist historians fool you. Read the true story for yourself, written by a man with personal acquaintance with the Baptist pioneers.

Author: Jewel L. Spangler
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Ultimately, the book chronicles a dual process of rebirth, as Virginians simultaneously formed a republic and became evangelical Christians.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

Author: John T. Christian
Publisher: Solid Christian Books
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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In attempting to write a history of the Baptists no one is more aware of the embarrassments surrounding the subject than the author. These embarrassments arise from many sources. We are far removed from many of the circumstances under survey; the representations of the Baptists were often made by enemies who did not scruple, when such a course suited their purpose, to blacken character; and hence the testimony from such sources must be received with discrimination and much allowance made for many statements; in some instances vigilant and sustained attempts were made to destroy every document relating to these people; the material that remains is scattered through many libraries and archives, in many lands and not always readily accessible; often, on account of persecutions, the Baptists were far more interested in hiding than they were in giving an account of themselves or their whereabouts; they were scattered through many countries, in city and cave, as they could find a place of concealment; and frequently they were called by different names by their enemies, which is confusing. Yet it is a right royal history they have. It is well worth the telling and the preserving.

Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195112423
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarrelled fiercely over land. Contested areas became known as "the devil's lane". This work highlights important new work on sexuality, race, and gender in the South from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Author: Eric C. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197606679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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John Leland (1754-1841) was one of the most influential and entertaining religious figures in early America. As an itinerant revivalist, he demonstrated an uncanny ability to connect with a popular audience, and contributed to the rise of a democratized Christianity in America. A tireless activist for the rights of conscience, Leland also waged a decades-long war for disestablishment, first in Virginia and then in New England. Leland advocated for full religious freedom for all-not merely Baptists and Protestants-and reportedly negotiated a deal with James Madison to include a Bill of Rights in the Constitution. Leland developed a reputation for being mad for politics in early America, delivering political orations, publishing tracts, and mobilizing New England's Baptists on behalf of the Jeffersonian Republicans. He crowned his political activity by famously delivering a 1,200-pound cheese to Thomas Jefferson's White House. Leland also stood among eighteenth-century Virginia's most powerful anti-slavery advocates, and convinced one wealthy planter to emancipate over 400 of his slaves. Though among the most popular Baptists in America, Leland's fierce individualism and personal eccentricity often placed him at odds with other Baptist leaders. He refused ordination, abstained from the Lord's Supper, and violently opposed the rise of Baptist denominationalism. In the first-ever biography of Leland, Eric C. Smith recounts the story of this pivotal figure from American Religious History, whose long and eventful life provides a unique window into the remarkable transformations that swept American society from 1760 to 1840.

Author: J.M. Carroll
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794700382
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Dr. JM Carroll's "The Trail of Blood" is a great historical premise concerning the beginnings of the church from "Christ it's founder, till the current day". Written in the early 20th century, Dr. Carroll details the history and plight of TRUE bible believers throughout time. Still as relevant today as it was almost 100 years ago, this timeless classic is a must-have part of any Christian's personal reading collection.

Author: David Dean Bowlby
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739170279
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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In this well-researched, informative history, David Dean Bowlby examines church and state in the American colonies and the early national period up to the framing of the religion clauses of the First Amendment by the First Congress. Bowlby describes the history of the church and state up to that time as one involving the struggle of religious minorities against church establishments, with increasingly vocal calls for the free exercise of religion, liberty of conscience, and disestablishment. He shows that when the religion clauses were framed, people feared that the establishment of religion would lead to the domination of one particular denomination or sect, resulting in compulsory church taxes, obligatory attendance at religious services, and adherence to orthodox doctrines and liturgy. By focusing on the relationship between religious establishments and free exercise, he makes the case that the establishment clause and free exercise of religion must be taken together as a guarantee of religious liberty, because where a religious establishment was present the full and free exercise of religion was not. It was this concern that prompted the prohibitive language of the clauses—the Founders meant to protect the latter by forbidding the former.

Author: Mechal Sobel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691006032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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"Originally published, with appendix, in the Greenwood Press series, Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 36, Westport, CT, c1979"--T.p. verso.