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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... father, William, was a preaching colleague of Raccoon John and was given especially harsh treatment by both Alexander Campbell in The Christian Baptist and John Augustus Williams in The Life of Elder John Smith, had only slightly more ...
... Father Paneloux, as an eight-monthold baby died of a rare heart defect that precipitated a cardiac arrest and was diagnosed only in the morgue after the code team finally gave up and managed to coax its grief-shattered mother into ...
... father, because they regarded hurting him as the most heinous crime of all. More is known about the family of John's mother, Rebecca Bowen Smith, and in fact more about Rebecca herself. She was born either in Pennsylvania or Virginia ...
... father's death, Reece Bowen moved southwestward and in 1772 became a pioneer settler at Maiden Springs in what was to become Russell County, Virginia, joining other Virginians, including some of the Looneys and Porters, and perhaps more ...
... father having died only recently beforehand and perhaps in some measure because of that tragedy, she married one Jonathan Whitely. He is supposed by family historians to have been either a native Englishman or Ulster Irishman, and ...
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Why I Make Use of This Newspaper | |
The Moment | |
This Has to Be Said | |
The Repetition | |
A Concluding Unscientific Postscript | |
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