Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom : a Literary Biography, Volume 1Eva Jean Wrather devoted seventy years to writing a biography of Alexander Campbell, the Scots-born founder of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the only Protestant denomination to originate in the United States. Her work, which she was still revising when she died, is a literary biography, without scholarly documentation. |
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Contents
A Call and a Wedding | 3 |
One of the Best Scholars in the Kingdom | 37 |
and a Voyage Accomplished | 61 |
The Way Is Prepared 18091822 | 101 |
A New Peak of the Mountain of God | 147 |
We Court Discussion | 201 |
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Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom - A Literary Biography Eva Jean Wrather,D. Duane Cummins No preview available - 2008 |
Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom : a Literary Biography, Volume 2 Eva Jean Wrather No preview available - 2005 |
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| Title | Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom : a Literary Biography, Volume 1 Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom : a Literary Biography, Eva Jean Wrather Literary Biography, Volume One |
| Author | Eva Jean Wrather |
| Editor | D. Duane Cummins |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | TCU Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0875653057, 9780875653051 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Reference |
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