Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Religious Herald
Author: Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society: Index to obituary notices in The religious herald, Richmond, Virginia, 1828-1938
Author: The Christian Herald
Author: Index to Marriage Notices in The Religious Herald, Richmond, Virginia, 1828-1938
Author: The Roots of Appalachian Christianity
Author: Elder John SparksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813158397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Appalachia's distinctive brand of Christianity has always been something of a puzzle to mainline American congregations. Often treated as pagan and unchurched, native Appalachian sects are labeled as ultraconservative, primitive, and fatalistic, and the actions of minority sub-groups such as "snake handlers" are associated with all worshippers in the region. Yet these churches that many regard as being outside the mainstream are living examples of America's own religious heritage. The emotional and experience-based religion that still thrives in Appalachia is very much at the heart of American worship. The lack of a recognizable "father figure" like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox compounds the mystery of Appalachia's religious origins. Ordained minister John Sparks determined that such a person must have existed, and his search turned up a man less literate, urbane, and well-known than Luther, Calvin, and Knox -- but no less charismatic and influential. Shubal Stearns, a New England Baptist minister, led a group of sixteen Baptists -- now dubbed "The Old Brethren" by Old School Baptists churches in Appalachia -- from New England to North Carolina in the mid-eighteenth century. His musical "barking" preaching is still popular, and the association of churches that he established gave birth to many of the disparate denominations prospering in the region today. A man lacking in the scholarship of his peers but endowed with the eccentricities that would make their mark on Appalachian faith, Stearns has long been an object of shame among most Baptist historians. In The Roots of Appalachian Christianity, Sparks depicts an important religious figure in a new light. Poring over pages of out-of-print and little-used histories, Sparks discovered the complexity of Stearns's character and his impact on Appalachian Christianity. The result is a history not just of this leader but of the roots of a religious movement.
The Centennial of Religious Journalism
Author: John Pressley BarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herald of Gospel Liberty
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society: Index to obituary notices in The religious herald, Richmond, Virginia, 1828-1938
Author: Historical Records Survey of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Gospel Working Up
Author: Beth Barton SchweigerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019028322X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War, showing how Southern Protestantism became an instrument of spiritual, moral, material, and cultural progress.
Herald and Presbyter
Author: Sexperiment
Author: Ed YoungPublisher: FaithWords
ISBN: 1455504815
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The predominant message in our culture is that it's okay to have sex whenever, wherever, and however we want. Sex has become just sex. But while society has taken sex too far, the church hasn't taken it far enough. God wants couples to make love in marriage-with passion, with purpose, and with pleasure. Marriages aren't experiencing all the benefits that come from a healthy sex life. Couples are facing a barrage of influences that keep them from connecting with each other regularly-the kids, the career, the house, the errands, etc. SEXPERIMENT shows people that sex in marriage is more than just sex, and it's more than a chore. The Youngs believe it's time to get back to understanding the context of sex in marriage and that it's time for couples to break the barriers keeping them from a healthy sexual relationship. Couples ought to experience the benefits of having sex regularly, intentionally, and creatively. SEXPERIMENT will allow couples to discover that the intersection of God and sex can lead to a life punctuated by exclamation marks!