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A Mere Kentucky of a Place - The Elkhorn Association and the Commonwealth's First Baptists (Hardcover)
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A Mere Kentucky of a Place - The Elkhorn Association and the Commonwealth's First Baptists (Hardcover)
Series: America's Baptists
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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
of a new frontier democracy, the Elkhorn Association, on closer
inspection, reveals itself to be far more complex. In A Mere
Kentucky of a Place, Keith Harper argues that the association's
Baptist ministers were neither full-fledged frontier egalitarians
nor radical religionists but simply a people in transition. These
ministers formed their identities in the crucible of the early
national period, challenged by competing impulses, including their
religious convictions, Jeffersonian Republicanism, and a rigid
honor code-with mixed results. With a keen eye for human interest,
Harper brings familiar historical figures such as John Gano and
Elijah Craig to life as he analyzes leadership in the Elkhorn
Association during the early republic. Mining the wealth of
documents left by the association, Harper details the self-aware
struggle of these leaders to achieve economic wealth, status, and
full social and cultural acceptance, demonstrating that the Elkhorn
Association holds a unique place in the story of Baptists in the
"New Eden" of Kentucky. Ideal for course adoption in religious
studies and students of Kentucky history, this readable work is
sure to become a standard source on the history of religion on the
Kentucky frontier.
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