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Pilgrims of paradox : Calvinism and experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge / James L. Peacock and Ruel W. Tyson, Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Chapel Hill] : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Retired Faculty Association, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 1469635186
  • 9781469635187
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  • 305.6/610755 23
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  • BX6384.B57 P43 2017eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: The Primitive Baptists -- CHAPTER TWO: Orientations -- CHAPTER THREE: Multiplying by Dividing: Trouble at Low Valley -- CHAPTER FOUR: Interlude: Doctrine, Polity, History, and Form -- CHAPTER FIVE: Parallel Lives -- CHAPTER SIX: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Pilgrims and Paradoxes -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Theory and Ethnography -- APPENDIX A: 1983 Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association -- APPENDIX B: Excerpts from the London Meeting of 1689
APPENDIX C: Number of Primitive Baptist Churches by StateAPPENDIX D: Demography of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association -- APPENDIX E: Membership of Churches in the Mountain District Association -- APPENDIX F: Characters and Their Affiliations -- APPENDIX G: Patterns of Reciprocity and Exclusion among the Churches -- APPENDIX H: Obituary of Elder Elmer Sparks -- APPENDIX I: Independent Protestants: Background Information -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q
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Summary: The Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association enfolds churches in four counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains--North Carolina's Ashe and Allegheny counties and Virginia's Grayson and Carroll counties. Primitive Baptists are found throughout the United States and are related to the Strict and Particular Baptists of the United Kingdom. They are Calvinists, adhering to the theologies of John Calvin, John Bunyan, and British theologians such as Henry Philpott. As Calvinists, they teach predestination--that before the creation of the Earth, God chose who would be saved and damned. No one knows who is which and no one can change this destiny. Originally published in 1989, Pilgrims of Paradox is based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s. Despite what may seem a fatalistic doctrine, Peacock and Tyson show that the Primitive Baptists of this region live vigorous, sturdy lives marked by self-sufficiency and caring for their community. They also inspire others in the area with the beauty of their hymns and "discourses" and by accomplishments bounded by humility.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1629093

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Originally published in 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: The Primitive Baptists -- CHAPTER TWO: Orientations -- CHAPTER THREE: Multiplying by Dividing: Trouble at Low Valley -- CHAPTER FOUR: Interlude: Doctrine, Polity, History, and Form -- CHAPTER FIVE: Parallel Lives -- CHAPTER SIX: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Pilgrims and Paradoxes -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Theory and Ethnography -- APPENDIX A: 1983 Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association -- APPENDIX B: Excerpts from the London Meeting of 1689

APPENDIX C: Number of Primitive Baptist Churches by StateAPPENDIX D: Demography of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association -- APPENDIX E: Membership of Churches in the Mountain District Association -- APPENDIX F: Characters and Their Affiliations -- APPENDIX G: Patterns of Reciprocity and Exclusion among the Churches -- APPENDIX H: Obituary of Elder Elmer Sparks -- APPENDIX I: Independent Protestants: Background Information -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q

RS -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

The Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association enfolds churches in four counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains--North Carolina's Ashe and Allegheny counties and Virginia's Grayson and Carroll counties. Primitive Baptists are found throughout the United States and are related to the Strict and Particular Baptists of the United Kingdom. They are Calvinists, adhering to the theologies of John Calvin, John Bunyan, and British theologians such as Henry Philpott. As Calvinists, they teach predestination--that before the creation of the Earth, God chose who would be saved and damned. No one knows who is which and no one can change this destiny. Originally published in 1989, Pilgrims of Paradox is based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s. Despite what may seem a fatalistic doctrine, Peacock and Tyson show that the Primitive Baptists of this region live vigorous, sturdy lives marked by self-sufficiency and caring for their community. They also inspire others in the area with the beauty of their hymns and "discourses" and by accomplishments bounded by humility.