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Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
John R. Dichtl
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Description for Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
Hardcover. Examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley - despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening - expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley -- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening -- expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors. Using extensive correspondence, reports, diaries, court documents, apologetical works, and other records of Catholic clergy, John R. Dichtl shows how Catholic leadership successfully pursued strategies of growth in frontier regions while continually weighing major decisions against established Protestant doctrine. Frontiers of Faith helps restore Catholicism to the story of ... Read more
Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley -- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening -- expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors. Using extensive correspondence, reports, diaries, court documents, apologetical works, and other records of Catholic clergy, John R. Dichtl shows how Catholic leadership successfully pursued strategies of growth in frontier regions while continually weighing major decisions against established Protestant doctrine. Frontiers of Faith helps restore Catholicism to the story of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813124865
SKU
V9780813124865
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About John R. Dichtl
John R. Dichtl is executive director of the National Council on Public History and former deputy executive director of the Organization of American Historians.
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