The Ballous in America
The Ballous in America

Author: Massachusetts Historical Records Survey

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015837348

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Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England
Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England

Author: Bryce Hal Taylor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-12-13

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1498589723

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New England Christianity in the nineteenth century produced an almost unending stream of new and old denominations that speckled the landscape. Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Universalists, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Restorationists, and Calvinists—to name a few—beckoned each individual to join their growing movements. Each professed its truths and some proclaimed theirs was the only path leading to salvation. Admist this Christian angst, Adin Ballou began his spiritual quest to obtain truth. Through Ballou's lengthy spiritual quest, from 1820 to 1880, this book examines how denominational histories, however important, do not explain what a nineteenth-century New England Christian became. Ballou exemplifies this paradox. Always fixed, but never settled. Once a believer chose a path, new phenomena and teachings immediately appeared leaving one's truth claims transient. Through the Christian maze of nineteenth-century New England, Ballou's Christian faith was simply his own.

For Love & Liberty
For Love & Liberty

Author: Robin Young

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13: 9781560257240

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The true story of Rhode Island Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou, best known as the character who wrote an eloquent letter to his wife in Ken Burn's The Civil War, describes the promising law career he left to join the Union Army, his relationship with his wife and two sons, and the First Battle of Bull Run during which he lost his life.