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Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom - The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South (Hardcover)
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Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom - The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South (Hardcover)
Series: Religion in American History
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This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist
Archibald Simpson (1734-1795) to examine the history of evangelical
Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the
last half of the eighteenth century. Although he grew up in the
evangelical heartland of Scotland in the wake of the great
mid-century revivals, Simpson spurned revivalism and devoted
himself instead to the grinding work of the parish ministry. At age
nineteen he immigrated to South Carolina, where he spent the next
eighteen years serving slaveholding Reformed congregations in the
lowcountry plantation district. Here powerful planters held sway
over slaves, families, churches, and communities, and Simpson was
constantly embattled as he sought to impose an evangelical order on
his parishes. In refusing to put the gospel in the pockets of
planters who scorned it-and who were accustomed to controlling
their parish churches-he earned their enmity. As a result, every
relationship was freighted with deceit and danger, and every
practice-sermons, funerals, baptisms, pastoral visits, death
narratives, sickness, courtship, friendship, domestic concerns-was
contested and politicized. In this context, the cause of the gospel
made little headway in Simpson's corner of the world. Despite the
great midcentury revivals, the steady stream of religious
dissenters who poured into the province, and all the noise they
made about slave conversions, Simpson's story suggests that there
was no evangelical movement in colonial South Carolina, just a
tired and frustrating evangelical slog.
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