Minutes of the Baptist Association ...
Author : Philadelphia Baptist Association
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : Philadelphia Baptist Association
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : Central Baptist Association (Tenn.)
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Baptist associations
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Historical Records Survey of North Carolina
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Baptist associations
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Baptists
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : United States
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Author : Gregory A. Wills
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0195160991
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1989
Category : United States
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Author : Mitchell Snay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807846872
The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.
Author : New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Archives
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