Eric C. Smith

John Leland

A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America

Buch

John Leland, the colorful Baptist itinerant, was one of the most important and fascinating religious figures in early America. He is best remembered for delivering a 1,200-pound Mammoth Cheese to Thomas Jefferson's White House, and for negotiating the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution with James Madison. But Leland was also a tireless revivalist and a dogged advocate of religious freedom for all, an anti-slavery spokesman and unofficial DemocraticParty whip, a defender of popular Calvinism and promoter of extreme religious individualism among Baptists. Eric C. Smith explores these and other major themes in this first-ever biog… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-19-760667-4
EAN: 9780197606674
Produktnummer: 37009570
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.4 cm 552 g
Gewicht: 552

Über den Autor

Eric C. Smith is the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, and a historian of American Baptists and early American religion. He is also the author of Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America (OUP, 2020) and Order & Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists of Eighteenth-Century South Carolina (USC Press, 2018). He and his wife, Candace, have threechildren.