Title:	The Roots of Appalachian Christianity
Authors:	John Sparks, Elder John B. Boles
Keywords:	Appalachian Region
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	The University Press of Kentucky
Description:	gion, including the later Pentecostal-Holiness groups. This is an important book because it fully examines the ministry of Shubal Stearns and is well-presented and documented. Such books usually come from remote scholars at a university, especially if published by a university press. This book is important because it comes from a practicing preacher living among people who share some of the same characteristics of Stearns’s congregants: being relatively isolated from mainline society, leading sometimes hard lives, feeling a need of the gospel, and looking for choices in doctrine. Sparks, like other old-time Baptists, does not receive a salary from his congregation. He compares himself to the old “farmer-preachers” such as Shubal Stearns, although he calls himself a “technician-preacher,” since he supports his family as a laboratory technician in a hospital. This book then is a labor of love, wrenched out of long and difficult study through mail orders, interlibrary loans, and the Internet.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/73663
ISBN:	0-8131-2223-6
Appears in Collections:	History

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