The Gospel Working Up
| Author | : Beth Barton Schweiger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2000-02-10 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780195354720 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0195354729 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (729 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Gospel Working Up by : Beth Barton Schweiger
Download or read book The Gospel Working Up written by Beth Barton Schweiger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War, showing how Southern Protestantism became an instrument of spiritual, moral, material, and cultural progress.
