Title:
Primitive Baptists of the wiregrass south : 1815 to the present
Author:
Publication Information:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1998.
Physical Description:
xiii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-234) and index.
Contents:
"The rock whence ye are hewn": origins of Southern primitive Baptist doctrine and practice -- "This wilderness counterey": the Baptist expansion into South Georgia and Florida -- "Under the dropings of the sanctuary": worship and discipline -- "Always primitive": the Missionary controversy -- "Wars and rumors of wars": the Civil War era -- "How are the mighty fallen": the post-Civil War era -- "Contentions among you": the Crawfordites, Jackites, Battleites, and Coonites -- "Seeking the old paths": the progressive and peace movements -- "I have given you an example": the footwashing controversy and related issues -- "The shadows of the evening": 1945 to the present.
