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Baptize America
Trace 250 years of American history through a forceful theological and historical prism. Baptize America is a story of the historic debate in 1820 over the frontier between Alexander Campbell and John Walker.
Learn how baptism made American history and theology, too. This book spans back and forth along the Ulster-Scottish tradition and the spirit of the Frontier. An opportune introspection of faith, country hood and the call which is always there to Baptize America.
About The Author
Craig Munro Wilson is a Presbyterian minister, theologian and scholar whose scholastic and pastoral writings focus on the theological legacy of Alexander Campbell and the wider Reformed tradition.
Wilson, a Scot who resides in Ulster, is a writer with an insider view of the historic Ulster-Scottish milieu which significantly influenced American frontier religion as well as the Campbell-Walker debate.
About The book
Baptize America is concerned with the 250-year history of the American people that revisits one of the most crucial theological controversies of the American Frontier, the baptismal controversy of 1820 between Alexander Campbell and John Walker in Mount Pleasant, Ohio.
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What does baptism have to do with America’s destiny?
Baptize America is a 250-year history of the American people that revisits one of the most crucial theological controversies of the American Frontier, the baptismal controversy of 1820 between Alexander Campbell and John Walker in Mount Pleasant, Ohio.
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An American history and theological masterpiece; stunning and thought-provoking.
An American history and theological masterpiece; stunning and thought-provoking.
It is a must read to any person who cares about the topic of faith and the American Frontier.
Educational and yet easy to understand-Baptize America can be read with great information and also with spiritual fulfillment.
The book is a generation of a conversation within the framework of a debate that occurred in the nineteenth century.
A captivating look at baptism, covenant theology, and the American religious identity.