{"product_id":"oliver-hart-and-the-rise-eric-c-smith-9780197506325","title":"Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America","description":"Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful, and rapidly-growing denomination, poised to send missionaries to the other side of the world. One of the most influential yet neglected leaders in that transformation was Oliver Hart, longtime pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church. \u003cem\u003eOliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America\u003c\/em\u003e is the first modern biography of Hart, arguably the most important evangelical leader in the pre-Revolutionary South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring his thirty years in Charleston, Hart emerged as the region's most important Baptist denominational architect. His outspoken patriotism forced him to flee Charleston when the British army invaded Charleston in 1780, but he left behind a southern Baptist people forever changed by his energetic ministry. Hart's accommodating stance toward slavery enabled him and the white Baptists who followed him to reach the center of southern society, but also eventually doomed the national Baptist denomination of Hart's dreams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than a biography, \u003cem\u003eOliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America\u003c\/em\u003e seamlessly intertwines Hart's story with that of eighteenth-century American Baptists, providing one of the most thorough accounts to date of this important and understudied religious group's development. This book makes a significant contribution to the study of Baptist life and evangelicalism in the pre-Revolutionary South and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric C. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197506321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197506325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2021","brand":"Eric C. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983149924607,"sku":"9780197506325","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5b5eee5-1caf-4e82-b545-126bae3ff841.jpg?v=1683264955","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oliver-hart-and-the-rise-eric-c-smith-9780197506325","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}