A History of the Liberty Baptist Association From Its Organization in 1832 to 1906, Containing Much History Incidentally Connected With This Body; Also There is Presented Quite an Extended Account of the "Split" in Baptist Ranks Showing Who Are The...
A History of the Liberty Baptist Association From Its Organization in 1832 to 1906, Containing Much History Incidentally Connected With This Body; Also There is Presented Quite an Extended Account of the

Author: Henry Sheets

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019498873

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The Liberty Baptist Association has played a significant role in the growth and development of Baptist churches in Virginia and beyond. In this lively and engaging history, Henry Sheets traces the evolution of the Association from its early beginnings to the present day, offering insights into the social, cultural, and religious forces that have shaped this dynamic organization. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Strangers Below
Strangers Below

Author: Joshua Guthman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-09-28

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1469624877

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Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. Joshua Guthman here tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended Calvinism, America's oldest Protestant creed, from what they feared were the unbridled forces of evangelical greed and power. In their harrowing confessions of faith and in the quavering uncertainty of their singing, Guthman finds the emotional catalyst of the Primitives' early nineteenth-century movement: a searing experience of doubt that motivated believers rather than paralyzed them. But Primitives' old orthodoxies proved startlingly flexible. After the Civil War, African American Primitives elevated a renewed Calvinism coursing with freedom's energies. Tracing the faith into the twentieth century, Guthman demonstrates how a Primitive Baptist spirit, unmoored from its original theological underpinnings, seeped into the music of renowned southern artists such as Roscoe Holcomb and Ralph Stanley, whose "high lonesome sound" appealed to popular audiences searching for meaning in the drift of postwar American life. In an account that weaves together religious, emotional, and musical histories, Strangers Below demonstrates the unlikely but enduring influence of Primitive Baptists on American religious and cultural life.