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The roots of Appalachian Christianity : the life and legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns
- Title
- The roots of Appalachian Christianity : the life and legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns / John Sparks.
- Author
- Sparks, John, 1961-
- Publication
- Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Shubal Stearns led a group of sixteen Baptists from New England to North Carolina in the mid-eighteenth century, and today he stands as a religious father figure for the association of churches and disparate denominations prevalent in the region today.
- Series Statement
- Religion in the South
- Uniform Title
- Religion in the South.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Church history
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-311) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Loyal Jones -- The Covenant Owners: 1706-1740 -- Rude Awakening: 1740-1751 -- The "Garding in Closed": 1751-1754 -- Chance and Providence: 1754-1755 -- Chamomile: 1755-1765 -- Meshech: 1765-1771 -- Requiem: 1772-1801 -- The Legacy of the Goodly Fere: 1801-2001 -- Afterword: I, The Preacher.
- ISBN
- 0813122236
- 9780813122236
- 0201746131
- 9780201746136
- LCCN
- 2001003412
- OCLC
- ocm47136399
- 47136399
- SCSB-1237278
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library