Old Paioner

Burnett, Peter H.

History

Wentworth Press

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BiblioLife

Peter Hardeman Burnett (1807-1895) spent his early years in Tennessee and Missouri, serving as a district attorney in the latter state. In 1848, he went to California in search of gold and soon became a business and political leader of that territory. A remarkable American odyssey in which Burnett recollects his early life in Missouri, his career in Oregon, and his decision to join a wagon train to California in the summer of 1848 where he became that state?s first Governor.

Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer

Americas

Narrative Pr

<p>In 1860 Peter Hardeman Burnett published his first book "The Path which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church." This was not his personal story, but a biblical exegesis. As an eminent jurist, he delivers, a judge's 'summing up' on the truth of Christianity. In this edition we supply a new title in accord with the thrust of the work, but keep Burnett's full text and language The analysis is instructive of the role of religion in European and American culture. Catholics will find his Protestant evidentialist dialectic to be unique. While he 'finds for' the Old Church, Protestants will find much of interest in what divides Protestant from Protestant. These issues are starkly current -- critical rules for hermeneutics, the role of reason in religious faith, inspiration of Scripture, the need for a tangible church, achieving certainty, and so on.</p>

The True Church: The Path Which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church; Christian Theory, Doctrine and Discipline

Religion & Spirituality

Solas Pr

The work will appeal to history enthusiasts and to a broad audience for information about 'manifest destiny' and the roots of modern California. If a reader's background rests on the general literature there may be many surprises. For example, the initiative to bring Federal peace and a measure of justice to the warring Indians came from Burnett.Burnett was raised in a family with slaves but he was one of the earliest to call for an end to the 'peculiar institution,' and his Archy decision essentially reversed California's slide to being a de facto slave state.

The Letters of Peter H. Burnett: Realism and the Roots of California

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Solas Press

The Path which led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Salzwasser-Verlag

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