Faith and fury : Eli Farmer on the frontier, 1794-1881 /

"Faith and Fury by Riley B. Case tells the fascinating story of Eli Farmer (1794-1881) who moved to Monroe County, Indiana, in 1820 and became a Methodist circuit rider. Over nine years, he visited 33 different preaching locations and covered over 300 square miles in southern and central Indian...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Case, Riley B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Farmer, Eli, > 1794-1881.
Methodist Episcopal Church > Indiana > Biography.
Methodist Episcopal Church
Circuit riders > Indiana > Biography.
Itinerancy (Church polity) > Methodist Church.
Prédicateurs itinérants (Méthodisme) > Indiana > Biographies.
Circuit riders
Itinerancy (Church polity) > Methodist Church
Indiana
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Religion in post-revolutionary America
  • Eli Farmer's family and childhood, 1788 to 1813
  • The formative years, 1814 to 1818
  • Spiritual searching and conviction, 1817 to 1820
  • Reclaimed, 1820 to 1822
  • "God has given me this place," 1822 to 1826
  • Officially Methodist, 1825 to 1826
  • Good in prayer and singing, 1826 to 1827
  • Taking on Lafayette, 1827 to 1828
  • Sickness, location, and Washington Circuit, 1828 to 1830
  • Harvest time, 1830 to 1832
  • Greencastle, location, and Brown County, 1833 to 1838
  • Danville, Christian Union, and sectarianism, 1838 to 1842
  • Politics, 1830s to 1845
  • The trip south, 1846
  • Nonsectarian sectarianism, 1840s to 1853
  • The Bloomington Religious Times, 1853 to 1854
  • Methodists up-and-coming without Farmer, 1850s
  • The Civil War, 1861 to 1865
  • Christian Union at last, 1863-1874.

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