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Raccoon John Smith : frontier Kentucky's most famous preacher / Elder John Sparks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion in the SouthPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813171822
  • 9780813171821
  • 9780813123707
  • 0813123704
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Raccoon John Smith.DDC classification:
  • 286.6/092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BX7343.S78 S63 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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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