Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Subject "United States--Church history--19th century"
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)After the Revolution, opportunistic settlers from Virginia began streaming over the Allegheny Mountains to settle frontier lands to the south and west. Numbered among them, Baptists came in droves, spreading not only the ... -
Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008-03-03)This dissertation examines the relationship between Baptists and social reform from 1770 through 1860. Chapter one examines two explanations to the social movements of this period. Attention is given to the tension between ...