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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Smith, Eric Coleman
Titre(s) : Oliver Hart and the rise of Baptist America [Texte imprimé] / Eric C. Smith
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. ([IX]-337 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 317-330. Index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Hart, Oliver (1723-1795)
Baptistes -- Charleston (S.C., États-Unis ; région) -- 18e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
286.109 2 (23e éd.) = Baptistes réguliers - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-750632-5 (rel.). - ISBN 0197506321. - ISBN 9780197506349 (erroné)
EAN 9780197506325
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46700694b
Notice n° :
FRBNF46700694
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Table des matières : "The humble Baptists": Oliver Hart's Baptist community ; "The power of religion
greatly displayed": Baptists and the Great Awakening ; "All things are become new":
moving to the South ; "Bringing many souls home to Jesus Christ": moderate revivalism
in Charleston ; "A regular confederation": laying the foundations of the Baptist
South ; "Every day brings fresh wonders!": the 1754 Charleston Revival ; "Seals
of my ministry": training the next generation ; "Promoting so laudable a design":
Baptist development in the 1760s ; "Comforts and mercies, losses and crosses": a
transitional season ; "The rising glory of this continent": the American Revolution
; "Directed in the path of duty": staying the course ; "The Baptist interest": a
respectable denomination in a new nation ; "All the Baptists on the continent": a
dream briefly realized.
