Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous PreacherUniversity Press of Kentucky, 23 dic 2005 - 506 pagine The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars as part of the Stone-Campbell movement. If Stone and Campbell are considered the architects of the Disciples of Christ and America's first nondenominational movement, then Kentucky's Raccoon John Smith is their builder and mason. Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher is the biography of a man whose work among the early settlers of Kentucky carries an important legacy that continues in our own time. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier, Smith spent his childhood and adolescence in the untamed frontier country of Tennessee and southern Kentucky. A quick-witted, thoughtful, and humorous youth, Smith was shaped by the unlikely combination of his dangerous, feral surroundings and his Calvinist religious indoctrination. The dangers of frontier life made an even greater impression on John Smith as a young man, when several instances of personal tragedy forced him to question the philosophy of predeterminism that pervaded his religious upbringing. From these crises of faith, Smith emerged a changed man with a new vocation: to spread a Christian faith wherein salvation was available to all people. Thus began the long, ecclesiastical career of Raccoon John Smith and the germination of a religious revolution. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written, Raccoon John Smith is the first objective and painstakingly accurate treatment of the legendary frontier preacher. The intricacies behind the development of both Smith's personal religious beliefs and the founding of the Christian Church are treated with equal care. Raccoon John Smith is the story of a single man, but in carefully examining the events and people that influenced Elder Smith, this book also serves as a formative history for several Christian denominations, as well as an account of the wild, early years of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. |
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... Separate Baptists in my previous work, The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns, I penned a brief, and, as I frankly stated in the writing itself, inadequate, biographical sketch of Raccoon John ...
... Separate Baptist factions of the Kentucky General Union back in a day when both warring factions were unquestionably biblical literalists and inerrantists, and ponder how much, really, organized evangelical Christianity as a whole has ...
... Separates, operating in the Dan, New, and upper Roanoke River valleys to the southwest of Botetourt County. Originally a New England entity, the Separate Baptist Church represented a patchwork of influences tacked together during a ...
... Separate Baptist churches eventually united with the Regular Baptists in new associational bodies sponsored by the Philadelphia group and which guaranteed their congregations more autonomy than the General Baptists allowed. Fragments of ...
... Separate Baptist theology and practice a permanent part, and in many areas virtually the standard, of southeastern American Christianity. Even Stearns's own pulpit address was imitated by his followers, and its variants can yet be heard ...
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Why I Make Use of This Newspaper | |
The Moment | |
This Has to Be Said | |
The Repetition | |
A Concluding Unscientific Postscript | |
Bibliography | |