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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... taken from John Augustus Williams's The Life of Elder John Smith (1870). Maps by Dick Gilbreath 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sparks, John, 1961Raccoon John Smith : frontier Kentucky's most ...
... taken before and after the ceremony, and a few years later wept with her parents and loved ones as I officiated at another rite after complications from the chronic leukopenia and thrombocytopenia that she had developed from the ...
... taken from Chapter X of the 1742 Philadelphia Baptist Confession, which reads virtually identically in the Second London, Savoy, and Westminster Confessions all: 3. Elect infants dying in infancy, are (John iii. 3,5,6) regenerated and ...
... taken ostensibly to raise money for this institution. Unlike them, he had definite Calvinistic leanings, which made him acceptable at least initially as a guest speaker in Presbyterian and Congregational pulpits. Still, Whitefield must ...
... taken over the pastoral care of the New Britain Church in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In the early 1750s, though, he relocated probably to Maryland and began to work with a small congregation of Baptists on a branch of the north fork of ...
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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 | |