Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Parker, Daniel (1781-1861)
Titre(s) : The autobiography of Daniel Parker [Texte imprimé] : frontier universalist / Daniel Parker ; edited and annotated with an introduction and epilogue by David Torbett
Publication : Athens : Ohio University Press, copyright [2021]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (li, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index
"In this remarkable memoir, Daniel Parker (1781-1861) recorded both the details of
everyday life and the extraordinary historical events he witnessed west of the Appalachian
Mountains between 1790 and 1840. Once a traveling salesman for a line of newly invented
clothes washing machines, he became an outspoken advocate for abolition and education.
With his wife and son, he founded Clermont Academy, a racially integrated, coeducational
secondary school-the first of its kind in Ohio. However, Parker's real vocation was
as a self-ordained, itinerant preacher of his own brand of universal salvation. Raised
by Presbyterian parents, he experienced a dramatic conversion to the Halcyon Church,
an alternative, millenarian religious movement led by the enigmatic prophet Abel Sarjent,
in 1803. After parting ways with the Halcyonists, he continued his own biblical and
theological studies, arriving at the universalist conclusions that he would eventually
preach throughout the Ohio River Valley. David Torbett has transcribed Parker's manuscript
and publishes it here for the first time, together with an introduction, epilogue,
bibliography, and extensive notes that enrich Parker's text"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Torbett, David (1964-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Parker, Daniel (1781-1861)
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Universalisme (théologie) -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Genre ou forme : Autobiographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
289.134 (23e éd.) = Églises universalistes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780821424292. - ISBN 0821424297. - ISBN 9780821447239 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471447590
Notice n° :
FRBNF47144759
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Ch. 1 "On Our Arrival West Of The Mountains" ; ch. 2 "This Cross-Bearing Company"
; ch. 3 "It Might Be A Benefit To Travel" ; ch. 4 "A Kind Of Agreeable Dread" ;
ch. 5 "The Whole Race Of Adam Would Be Restored" ; ch. 6 My Best Earthly Friend"
; ch. 7 "A Great And Growing Evil".
