A Mere Kentucky of a Place: The Elkhorn Association and the Commonwealth's First Baptists
(Part of the America’s Baptists Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1621906426
ISBN13:9781621906421
Release Date:June 2021
Publisher:Univ Tennessee Press
Length:219 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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