The Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of the Apostles

Author: Beth Allison Barr

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Published: 2009

Total Pages: 964

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Including the entirety of the Acts as translated by Baptist luminary Helen Barrett Montgomery, this commentary beautifully illustrates the diversity of Baptist responses to this book of Scripture, and in so doing, a variety of hermeneutical approaches within the Baptist tradition.--David W. Bebbington, Professor of History, University of Stirling

The Economic & Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850
The Economic & Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850

Author: Daniel P. Jones

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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 296

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The industrial revolution brought innovations to the region--turnpikes, tax-supported schools, and cotton-mill dams--that were at first strenuously resisted by the local settlers; however, they eventually adopted the intrusive forms of modernization. In addition, accommodating themselves to the tangible demands of an industrializing state evoked a change in their religious practices, as they abandoned the idiosyncratic practices of the Six-Principle Baptist sect in favor of the more cosmopolitan Free-Will Baptism. The struggles that took place in the rural regions of a commercializing nation have left their mark. As Jones notes in his preface, "From the vantage point of postindustrial United States, the triumph of commercial civilization and its values seems to have been inevitable.