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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Cover -- Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "The humble Baptists": Oliver Hart's Baptist Community -- 2. "The power of religion greatly displayed": Baptists and the Great Awakening -- 3. "All things are become new": Moving to the South -- 4. "Bringing many souls home to Jesus Christ": Moderate Revivalism in Charleston -- 5. "A regular Confederation": Laying the Foundations of the Baptist South -- 6. "Every day brings fresh wonders!": The 1754 Charleston Revival |
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7. "Seals of my ministry": Training the Next Generation -- 8. "Promoting so laudable a Design": Baptist Development in the 1760s -- 9. "Comforts and mercies, losses and crosses": A Transitional Season -- 10. "The rising glory of this continent": The American Revolution -- 11. "Directed in the path of duty": Staying the Course -- 12. "The Baptist Interest": A Respectable Denomination in a New Nation -- 13. "All the Baptists on the Continent": A Dream Briefly Realized -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Oliver Hart was arguably the most important evangelical leader of the pre-revolutionary South. For thirty years the pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church, Hart's energetic ministry breathed new life into that congregation and the struggling Baptist cause in the region. As the founder of the Charleston Baptist Association, Hart did more than any single figure to lay the foundations for the institutional life of the Baptist South, while also working extensively with evangelicals of all denominations to spread the revivalism of the Great Awakening across the lower South. One reason for Hart's extensive influence is the uneasy compromise he made with white Southern culture, most apparent in his willingness to sanctify the institution of slavery rather than to challenge as his more radical evangelical predecessors had done. While this capitulation gained Hart and his fellow Baptists access to Southern culture, it would also sow the seeds of disunion in the larger American denomination Hart worked so hard to construct. Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America, Eric C. Smith has written the first modern biography of Oliver Hart, while at the same time interweaving the story of the remarkable transformation of America's Baptists across the long eighteenth century. It provides perhaps the most complete narrative of the early development of one of America's largest, most influential, and most understudied religious groups"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2020) |
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Hart, Oliver, 1723-1795.
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Hart, Oliver, 1723-1795 fast |
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Regular Baptists -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Clergy -- Biography
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Baptists -- United States -- History.
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Baptists
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United States -- Church history -- To 1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139927
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South Carolina -- Charleston
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United States
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Church history
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020008349 |
| ISBN |
9780197506349 |
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0197506348 |
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9780197506332 |
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019750633X |
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9780197506356 |
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0197506356 |
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