BETWEEN 1815 and 1848, Primitive Baptists emerged as a distinct,
dominant religious group in the area of the deepest South known as
the Wiregrass country. John Crowley, a historian and former
Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion into
South Georgia and Florida, documenting one of the strongest aspects
of the inner life of the local piney-woods culture.
Crowley begins by examining Old Baptist worship and discipline
and then addressing Primitive Baptist reaction to the Civil War,
Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, the Depression, and
finally the ferment of the 1960s and present decline of the
denomination. Intensely conservative, with a strong belief in
predestination, Old Baptists opposed modernizing trends sweeping
their denomination in the early nineteenth century. Crowley
describes their separation from Southern Baptists and the many
internal schisms on issues such as the saving role of the gospel,
the Two Seed doctrine, and absolute as opposed to limited
predestination. Going beyond doctrine, he discusses contention
among Old Baptists over music, divorce, membership in secret
societies, sacraments administered by heretics, and rituals such as
the washing of feet.
Writing with insight and sensitivity, he navigates the history
of this denomination through the twentieth century and the
emergence of at least twenty mutually exclusive factions of
Primitive Baptists in this specific region of the Deep South.
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