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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... seems that man and God can play together; to a youth, it seems that an emotional passion for God could bring perfect union with him; but to an adult, God is infinitely vast, and the distance between man and God infinitely great. I can't ...
... seems to have had nothing but good to say about his former master, whom we know now only as Colonel Buchanan. Writing in the stilted prose of the post–Civil War era, John Augustus Williams recorded that this Colonel Buchanan was both “a ...
... seems to have suffered no persecutions whatsoever from either family, community, Church, or State when she remarried to George Smith (whether in legal or common-law fashion, we can't really say for sure) about 1766. Her father had been ...
... in this elect family and that some, perhaps many more, were not. And although the “real-life” proof that seems to have been cited by Calvinist ministers for the validity of the doctrine—“that as we saw infants, from their.
... seems now to us to be as inhumane in its own way as Calvinism; it was what they and countless generations of their ancestors had been used to, and in a day when most couples lost at least one or two offspring and sometimes more, it was ...
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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 | |