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Lion of the Forest
James B. Finley—circuit rider, missionary, prison reformer, church official—transformed the Ohio River Valley in the nineteenth century. As a boy he witnessed frontier raids, and as a youth he was known as the "New Market Devil" In adulthood, he traveled the Ohio forests, converting thousands through his thunderous preaching-and he was not above bringing hecklers under control with his fists. Finley criticized the federal government's Indian policy and his racist contemporaries, contributed to the temperance and prison reform movements, and played a key role in the 1844 division of the Methodist Episcopal Church over the slavery issue. Making extensive use of letters, diaries, and church...
The Uneasy Center
Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War. He clarifies theological traditions and doctrinal arguments and includes substantive discussions of institutional development and of the order and content of worship. Conkin defines Reformed Christianity broadly, to encompass Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Methodists, Calvinist Baptists, and all other denominations originating in the work of reformers other than Luther....
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Kentucky's Last Frontier
Presents the history of the exploration, settlement, and development of the vast mountain empire encompassed by several eastern Kentucky counties that pays attention to Civil War sites in the area.
Is Your God Too Nice?
Do you worship the God of the Bible, or a fictional character? This book will bring us back to the God of the Bible. Not the God we like or the way we wish He were, but the very God of the Bible--unembellished, unvarnished--as He really is. This does not mean we will like Him. Many times we are embarrassed by the God of the Bible, especially the God of the Old Testament. We are even embarrassed by the teachings of Jesus when it comes to His being the only way to be saved, as well as God's right to judge and reward or condemn. We attempt to manage God's PR and fix His image in the modern world. We are tempted to modify and mold God into what we want Him to be--what we think He should be. Inst...
To Western Woods
John Breckingridge (1760-1806) served in the Virginia and Kentucky Legistaltures United States Congress and United States attorney general under Thomas Jefferson.
