Raccoon John Smith : frontier Kentucky's most famous preacher /
Sparks, John, 1961-
Raccoon John Smith : frontier Kentucky's most famous preacher / Elder John Sparks. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Religion in the South . - Religion in the South. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-444) and index.
Introduction: from the papers of one still living -- The Fatherland -- Training in Christianity -- Stages on life's way -- Sickness unto death -- Truth and a living -- Why I make use of this newspaper -- The attack upon Christendom, pt. I: the moment -- The attack upon Christendom, pt. II: this has to be said -- The repetition -- A concluding unscientific postscript.
Lexington, Kentucky, has the honor of being the birthplace of one of the first genuinely homegrown American Christian faiths: the Disciples of Christ. Established in 1832 by the union of two Christian groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, their descendent churches are now referred to by religious scholars as the Stone-Campbell movement. In the state's best tradition, this historic movement soon acquired its own larger-than-life legend: Raccoon John Smith, the flamboyant frontier preacher of the southern Kentucky mountains. Smith moved to the lowland Bluegrass and braved conside.
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22573/ctt2hfnmw JSTOR
Smith, John, 1784-1868.
Smith, John, 1784-1868
Disciples of Christ--Clergy--Biography.
RELIGION--Christianity--Baptist.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
BX7343.S78 / S63 2005eb
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Raccoon John Smith : frontier Kentucky's most famous preacher / Elder John Sparks. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Religion in the South . - Religion in the South. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-444) and index.
Introduction: from the papers of one still living -- The Fatherland -- Training in Christianity -- Stages on life's way -- Sickness unto death -- Truth and a living -- Why I make use of this newspaper -- The attack upon Christendom, pt. I: the moment -- The attack upon Christendom, pt. II: this has to be said -- The repetition -- A concluding unscientific postscript.
Lexington, Kentucky, has the honor of being the birthplace of one of the first genuinely homegrown American Christian faiths: the Disciples of Christ. Established in 1832 by the union of two Christian groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, their descendent churches are now referred to by religious scholars as the Stone-Campbell movement. In the state's best tradition, this historic movement soon acquired its own larger-than-life legend: Raccoon John Smith, the flamboyant frontier preacher of the southern Kentucky mountains. Smith moved to the lowland Bluegrass and braved conside.
0813171822 9780813171821 9780813123707 0813123704
22573/ctt2hfnmw JSTOR
Smith, John, 1784-1868.
Smith, John, 1784-1868
Disciples of Christ--Clergy--Biography.
RELIGION--Christianity--Baptist.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
BX7343.S78 / S63 2005eb
286.6/092 B