Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom : a Literary Biography, Volume 1TCU Press, 2005 - 256 pages Eva 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. |
Contents
A Call and a Wedding | 3 |
One of the Best Scholars in the Kingdom | 37 |
and a Voyage Accomplished | 61 |
A New Peak of the Mountain of God | 147 |
We Court Discussion | 201 |
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