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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... known, worked up a Hal Holbrook–style one-man dramatic characterization of Raccoon John based largely on it. He played Raccoon John for churches, Sunday and Bible schools, and other denominational functions, perhaps unconsciously ...
... known as “Raccoon” John Smith. He was very active in visiting various associations and whenever any proposition was made to withdraw from the Campbellites he opposed it with might and main. His object, we have no doubt, was to hold the ...
... known that the cause of its fierce, heartrending cries before slipping inexorably into respiratory failure was a crushing pain in its tiny chest, neck, and arms that it never deserved, could not comprehend, and was unable to communicate ...
... known period writers such as James Mason, Albert Allen, and James Challen, and finally with Leroy Garrett's comprehensive history of the Reform movement and Richard Hughes's analysis of that movement's perhaps most vocal and certainly ...
... known as Regular, or Particular, Baptists was allowed to spread south from Pennsylvania and worship and proselytize on the lower Shenandoah near its confluence with the Potomac; and in the settled area furthest from Tidewater ...
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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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