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A Mere Kentucky of a Place: The Elkhorn Association and the Commonwealth's First Baptists

A Mere Kentucky of a Place: The Elkhorn Association and the Commonwealth's First Baptists

Harper, Keith

Hardcover

Series: America's Baptists

Religion General General ChristianityRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 1621906426
ISBN13: 9781621906421
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Jun 9 2021
Pages: 219
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

As the story goes, an itinerant preacher once visited the Bluegrass region and proclaimed heaven to be a mere Kentucky of a place. The Commonwealth's first Baptists certainly thought so as they began settling the region a decade before statehood. By 1785 a group of pioneering preachers formed the Elkhorn Association, widely regarded as the oldest Baptist association west of the Alleghenies. Often portrayed in the historiography as the vanguard of a new frontier democracy, the Elkhorn Association, on closer inspection, reveals itself to be far more complex. In A Mere Kentucky of a Place, Keith Harper argues that the association's Baptist ministers were neither full-fledged frontier egalitarians nor radical religionists but simply a people in transition. These ministers formed their identities in the crucible of the early national period, challenged by competing impulses, including their religious convictions, Jeffersonian Republicanism, and a rigid honor code--with mixed results.

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