Raccoon John Smith : frontier Kentucky's most famous preacher / Elder John Sparks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparks, John, 1961-

Series:

Religion in the South.

Religion in the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disciples of Christ--Clergy--Biography.

Disciples of Christ.

Smith, John, 1784-1868.

Smith, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lexington, Kentucky, has the honor of being the birthplace of one of the first genuinely homegrown American Christian faiths: the Disciples of Christ. Established in 1832 by the union of two Christian groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, their descendent churches are now referred to by religious scholars as the Stone-Campbell movement. In the state's best tradition, this historic movement soon acquired its own larger-than-life legend: Raccoon John Smith, the flamboyant frontier preacher of the southern Kentucky mountains. Smith moved to the lowland Bluegrass and braved cons

Contents:

Introduction: from the papers of one still living

The Fatherland

Training in Christianity

Stages on life's way

Sickness unto death

Truth and a living

Why I make use of this newspaper

The attack upon Christendom, pt. I: the moment

The attack upon Christendom, pt. II: this has to be said

The repetition

A concluding unscientific postscript.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-444) and index.

ISBN:

0-8131-3726-8

1-283-23289-8

9786613232892

0-8131-7182-2

OCLC:

65467380