Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America

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AvEric C. Smith,Tennessee) Smith, Eric C. (Senior Pastor, Senior Pastor, Sharon Baptist Church, Savannah

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Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful, and rapidly-growing denomination, poised to send missionaries to the other side of the world. One of the most influential yet neglected leaders in that transformation was Oliver Hart, longtime pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church. Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America is the first modern biography of Hart, arguably the most important evangelical leader in the pre-Revolutionary South. During his thirty years in Charleston, Hart emerged as the region's most important Baptist denominational architect. His outspoken patriotism forced him to flee Charleston when the British army invaded Charleston in 1780, but he left behind a southern Baptist people forever changed by his energetic ministry. Hart's accommodating stance toward slavery enabled him and the white Baptists who followed him to reach the center of southern society, but also eventually doomed the national Baptist denomination of Hart's dreams. More than a biography, Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America seamlessly intertwines Hart's story with that of eighteenth-century American Baptists, providing one of the most thorough accounts to date of this important and understudied religious group's development. This book makes a significant contribution to the study of Baptist life and evangelicalism in the pre-Revolutionary South and beyond.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-22
Mått236 x 157 x 30 mm
Vikt703 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor348
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197506325

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Introduction1. "The humble Baptists": Oliver Hart's Baptist Community2. "The power of religion greatly displayed": Baptists and the Great Awakening3. "All things are become new": Moving to the South4. "Bringing many souls home to Jesus Christ": Moderate Revivalism in Charleston5. "A regular Confederation": Laying the Foundations of the Baptist South6. "Every day brings fresh wonders!": The 1754 Charleston Revival7. "Seals of my ministry": Training the Next Generation8. "Promoting so laudable a Design": Baptist Development in the 1760s9. "Comforts and mercies, losses and crosses": A Transitional Season10. "The rising glory of this continent": The American Revolution11. "Directed in the path of duty": Staying the Course12. "The Baptist Interest": A Respectable Denomination in a New Nation13. "All the Baptists on the Continent": A Dream Briefly Realized

Smith has done an exemplary job of demonstrating Hart's seminal role in American Baptist development in the eighteenth century. One hopes for similar fresh studies of figures such as Edwards and Gano, as well as younger contemporaries such as Richard Furman, Thomas Baldwin, and John Leland. Embedded in their overlapping stories is the larger story of how Baptists in America evolved from backwater sectarians in 1715 to a national evangelical denomination by 1815.

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