Transatlantic Brethren: Rev. Samuel Jones (1735-1814) and His Friends : Baptists in Wales, Pennsylvania, and Beyond"Transatlantic Brethren recreates the Atlantic community of Baptists in Britain and America by focusing on the correspondence and connections of the Rev. Samuel Jones of Pennepek, near Philadelphia. Themes such as shared news of gospel success, the development of Baptist associations, and a learned ministry made for meaningful, if not always harmonious, communication between Baptists on both sides of the Atlantic during the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
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The Formative Years of Samuel Jones | 75 |
A Baptist Atlantic | 106 |
Remembrancers of a Common Past | 137 |
Radicalism Dissent and Gospel Success | 161 |
Emigration and the Transatlantic Baptist Network | 190 |
Common terms and phrases
Abel Morgan American Baptists amongst Atlantic August Baptist Annual Register Baptist church Baptist ministers Benjamin brethren Bristol British Brown University Caleb Evans Carmarthen Christian Collection Jones section congregations correspondence County David Jones Davies Delaware Valley denomination diary Dissenters Eaton Edwards section emigration England Enoch Edwards evangelical Friends gospel Griffith Hanes y Bedyddwyr History Ibid Isaac Backus James Jenkins John Evans John Hay Library John Rhees John Rippon Jones to Samuel Jones's Joshua Thomas July Kentucky land letter liberty London Lower Dublin March McKesson Collection Jones ministry Montgomery Morgan Edwards Morgan John Rhys muel Jones Penn Pennsylvania Philadelphia Association Philadelphia Baptist Association preach Quakers religion religious Rhees's Rhode Island College Rhydwilym Richards to Samuel Samuel Jones sermon Stanford Thomas Jones Thomas to Samuel tion Jones section tists transatlantic Welsh Baptists Welsh church Welsh language Welsh Tract Welshmen William Richards William Rogers wrote to Samuel York
Popular passages
Page 294 - MORGAN (Abel) Anti-Paedo-Rantism; or, Mr. Samuel Finley's Charitable Plea for the Speechless Examined and Refuted : The Baptism of Believers Maintain'd ; and the Mode of it, by Immersion Vindicated,^.
References to this book
Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale Guntram Henrik Herb,David H. Kaplan Limited preview - 1999 |