{"product_id":"oliver-hart-and-the-rise-of-baptist-america-paperback","title":"Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric C. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaptists 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. \u003cem\u003eOliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America\u003c\/em\u003e is the first modern biography of Hart, arguably the most important evangelical leader in the pre-Revolutionary South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than a biography, \u003cem\u003eOliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric C. Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, and Associate Professor of Church History at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eJohn Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America \u003c\/em\u003e(OUP, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47576851448061,"sku":"9780197769836","price":70.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/gfWiq4I4fK9780197769836.webp?v=1779778426","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/oliver-hart-and-the-rise-of-baptist-america-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}