Protestant Clergy - Christian Biography, Congregationalists - Christian Biography, Reformed Churches
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A nationally powerful reformer, editor, church leader, and author, Leonard Bacon (1802-1881) influenced the thinking of northern Protestants for more than fifty years. In this detailed biography, Hugh Davis offers the first scholarly treatment of Bacon's life and work. Convinced that he was obligated to educate the American people on a broad range of social, political, and theological issues, Bacon, a Congregational minister, actively sought to connect his church and community to the larger world of organized benevolence, religious and reform journalism, social activism, and scholarship. The son of New England Congregational missionaries to the native Americans on the Michigan frontier, he also endeavored to extend evangelical religion and New England ideas and institutions to the rest of the nation and even overseas. Offering new insights into the nineteenth-century Protestant ministry, the evangelical mentality, and the efforts of Americans in Bacon's generation to address the moral and social issues of their time, Leonard Bacon will prove an invaluable contribution to American religious, social, and political history.Editorials
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A biography of a 19th-century religious leader and reformer who sought to connect his church and community to the larger world of organized benevolence, religious and reform journalism, social activism, and scholarship. Explores his private life and family relationships, and describes his ministerial responsibilities and the theology and social philosophy he preached from the pulpit, explaining why he took sometimes paradoxical positions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 1, 1998
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pages
294
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780807122877