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Origins of the Mountain Preacher

Origins of the Mountain Preacher Preachers and lay members of the Old Regular Primitive Baptist Church at a Sandlick Association meeting near Holly Cemetary in Perry County, Kentucky, c. 1925 (Astor Dobson Collection) by Robert H. Hartman always clung literally to the Bible. "^ From James Hall's preacher, Zedekiah Bangs ^ In his review of Appalachian literature from its beginnings until the mid-twentieth century, Cratis Williams makes note of the portraits drawn in fiction of the mountain preacher. There is a sameness about these portraits that borders on the monotonous. In his own words, Williams sums up the character of the mountain preacher as "a Calvinist fundamentalist . . . , an emotional, irrational man of ranting zeal who down to Battle John Brand, mountain evangelist in Harriette Arnow's Hunter's Horn, 3 the preacher in the hills of Appalachia is seen as narrow, harsh, condemnatory, and distrustful of all education and ideas not contained in the Bible (as he per55 ceives it). He is a figure conspicuously devoid of human compassion. He lacks common sense and common grace. His preaching is emotional to the point of being ludicrous. His religion is one of dissent and negation, one of continually harping on the people's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Origins of the Mountain Preacher

Appalachian Review , Volume 9 (4) – Jan 8, 1981
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Preachers and lay members of the Old Regular Primitive Baptist Church at a Sandlick Association meeting near Holly Cemetary in Perry County, Kentucky, c. 1925 (Astor Dobson Collection) by Robert H. Hartman always clung literally to the Bible. "^ From James Hall's preacher, Zedekiah Bangs ^ In his review of Appalachian literature from its beginnings until the mid-twentieth century, Cratis Williams makes note of the portraits drawn in fiction of the mountain preacher. There is a sameness about these portraits that borders on the monotonous. In his own words, Williams sums up the character of the mountain preacher as "a Calvinist fundamentalist . . . , an emotional, irrational man of ranting zeal who down to Battle John Brand, mountain evangelist in Harriette Arnow's Hunter's Horn, 3 the preacher in the hills of Appalachia is seen as narrow, harsh, condemnatory, and distrustful of all education and ideas not contained in the Bible (as he per55 ceives it). He is a figure conspicuously devoid of human compassion. He lacks common sense and common grace. His preaching is emotional to the point of being ludicrous. His religion is one of dissent and negation, one of continually harping on the people's

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1981

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