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The Baptist - Softcover

Robert Boyte Crawford Howell

 
9780461591002: The Baptist

Synopsis

The Baptist by Robert Boyte Crawford Howell. This 1838 Nashville-based Baptist periodical issue gathers editorials, ministry news, mission reports, and denominational debates from the Tennessee/Southern Baptist sphere. It documents open vs. closed communion disputes among Old School Baptists, delegates' minutes from associations, and discussions of publishing finances, revival reports, and Cherokee missions. The issue places heavy emphasis on ministerial education and credentialing, arguing for robust preparation through colleges, seminaries, and languages, and defends cooperative associations and missions against anti-mission sentiments. It includes polemical defenses of open communion grounded in biblical precedent, and features Howell's education-religion address (for the University of Nashville, 1839), linking intellectual cultivation to national progress. Revivals across Alabama and Tennessee, gospel outreach among Cherokees, and obituaries of prominent pastors anchor the periodical in lived church life. The text reveals a denominational press attempting to unite Baptists around doctrinal fidelity, missionary zeal, and moral uplift amid financial strain.

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