Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1202
Release: 1899
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

To Contest with All the Powers of Darkness

To Contest with All the Powers of Darkness
Author: Jacob E Hicks
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2024
Genre: History
ISBN: 1621908283

"This book examines the ecclesiological and political networks that John Leland (1754-1833) and other Baptist leaders-among them, Jonathan Going, Luther Rice, Isaac Backus, and Samuel Stilman-created to attempt political disestablishment in Massachusetts during Leland's lifetime. The author contends that historiography that focuses narrowly on Leland tends to distort the very important role he played in the development of religious freedom in the revolutionary and Early Republic period"--