1854 CALVINISM & BAPTISM. Rare Indiana Debate on Total Hereditary Depravity

A rare volume recording an intense theological clash on the Western Frontier between Calvinist Regular Baptists and the rapidly growing Restoration Movement (Disciples of Christ / Stone-Campbell Movement).

The debate was between Benjamin Franklin of Cincinnati, one of the most prominent, influential evangelists and editors in the Stone-Campbell Movement; and Elder Joel Hume was a leading defender of Predestinarian/Primitive Baptist doctrine in Southwestern Indiana. Held in Posey County, Indiana, it took place over the course of four days, pitting Hume’s strict Calvinist view of human helplessness and total hereditary depravity against Franklin’s Arminian-leaning Restorationist argument for human free will, the necessity of baptism for salvation, and the possibility of falling from grace.

A rather scarce rural Indiana local imprint. 

A Debate on Total Hereditary Depravity; The Possibility of all Men, Where the Gospel is Preached, becoming Christians, The Design of Baptism; And the Possibility of Falling from Grace; Between Rev. Joel Hume, of Pasey County, Indiana of the Regular Baptist Church, and Elder Benjamin Franklin, of Cincinnati, Ohio of the Christian Church, Commencing Nov. 14th and ending Nov. 17th, 1853: Containing Four Hour-Speeches and Twelve Half-Hour-Speeches on Each Side. Mount Vernon, Indiana. Published by Larkin Dusouchet & Co. 1854. 322pp.

A good example of a rare volume, bound in its original cloth, generally dulled and faded as shown. Textually solid and clean with some light occasional foxing as shown. We did note one page with a pencil underline.