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PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

ISBN-100252029860

ISBN-139780252029868

eBay Product ID (ePID)44124909

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePeter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher

Publication Year2005

SubjectChristianity / Methodist, Christian Church / History, United States / 19th Century

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, History

AuthorRobert Bray

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight26.1 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-029692

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsWinner of the first annual Saddlebag Award, given by the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church (2006).

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal287

SynopsisBelieving deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the ......, Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being "self-made." In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter "divorce" of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent "man of words" on the frontier, a self-authorizing "legend in his own time," and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure., Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being ''self-made.'' In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter ''divorce'' of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent ''man of words'' on the frontier, a self-authorizing ''legend in his own time,'' and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure.

LC Classification NumberBX8495