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Elias Smith (1769-1846), A New England Preacher, Journalist, And Herbal Physician, Was One Of The Most Idiosyncratic Of A Generation Of Democratic Leaders In The Age Of The New Republic. Combining Religious And Social History, This Biography Tells How Smith's Perfect Law Of Liberty - A Radical Fusion Of Jeffersonian Republicanism And Evangelical Protestantism - Drew The Faith Of Humble Americans As It Challenged The Social Order. Michael Kenny Charts The Evolution Of Smith's Increasingly Powerful And Unsettling Rhetoric. A Baptist Minister In The 1790s, Smith Broke With The Church Hierarchy Over Questions Of Equality And Became A Leader In The So-called Christian Movement Or Christian Connection. Linking The New Testament With The Declaration Of Independence, He Told Followers That The Destiny Of The United States Was To Become A True Democracy. In Sermons And Writings He Emphasized Universal Equality, Repudiated Social Deference, And Invoked Ideas Of Individual Autonomy And Millennial Expectation. Kenny Traces The Extent Of Smith's Influence - His Newspaper, The Herald Of Gospel Liberty, Had A National Circulation - As Well As The Character Of His Followers. Revealing How One Man

Author

Michael G. Kenny

Publisher

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781560983217

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Memoir