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  • Paul the Progressive?

    The Compassionate Christian’s Guide to Reclaiming the Apostle as an Ally

    by Eric C. Smith ...
    A generation of biblical scholars have sparked a revolution in thinking about the apostle Paul. Now, bible scholar and progressive Christian pastor Eric C. Smith is helping Christians see how that revolution makes a difference for people engaged in the work of justice and inclusion. In Paul the Progressive, Smith revisits Paul in light of modern biblical scholarship, telling the story of a Paul ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Order and Ardor

    The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina

    by Eric C. Smith ...
    The first book-length study of the vital role Regular Baptists played in creating the modern Southern Baptist denominationThe origins of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world's largest Protestant denomination, is most often traced back to the colorful, revivalist Separate Baptist movement that rose out of the Great Awakening in the mid-1700s. During that same period the American South was ... Read more

    $33.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Worlds

    John A. Broadus, the Southern Baptist Seminary, and the Prospects of the New South

    by Eric C. Smith ...
    John A. Broadus (1827–95) was a highly influential Southern Baptist leader, preacher, scholar, and educator during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He cofounded the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which today is among the largest seminaries in the world. Broadus’s enduring impact on American preaching stems in part from his 1870 homiletics manual, a widely adopted textbook that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • John Leland

    A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America

    by Eric C. Smith ...
    John Leland (1754-1841) was one of the most influential and entertaining religious figures in early America. As an itinerant revivalist, he demonstrated an uncanny ability to connect with a popular audience, and contributed to the rise of a "democratized" Christianity in America. A tireless activist for the rights of conscience, Leland also waged a decades-long war for disestablishment, first in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America

    by Eric C. Smith ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Jewish Glass and Christian Stone

    A Materialist Mapping of the "Parting of the Ways"

    by Eric C. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
    In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a profoundly textual task, relying on the writings of rabbis, bishops, and other text-producing elites to map the terrain of the "parting." This book ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

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    In an astonishing history, a work of strikingly original research and interpretation, Heyrman shows how the evangelical Protestants of the late-18th century affronted the Southern Baptist majority of the day, not only by their opposition to slaveholding, war, and class privilege, but also by their espousal of the rights of the poor and their encouragement of women's public involvement in the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

    by Thomas S. Kidd ...
    In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Our Country

    Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era

    by Grant Brodrecht ...
    "A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era." — Civil War NewsNorthern evangelicals' love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves' emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves' full freedom and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rally the Scattered Believers

    Northern New England's Religious Geography

    by Shelby M. Balik ...
    "An important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic." — Journal of American HistoryNorthern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burned-over District

    The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800–1850

    by Whitney R. Cross ...
    During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western New York State were swept by fires of the spirit. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the "burned-over district." ... Read more

    $11.39 USD