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Southern Baptists Re-Observed

Author : Keith Harper
Publisher : America's Baptists
ISBN 13 : 9781621907299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Southern Baptists Re-Observed written by Keith Harper and published by America's Baptists. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, sociologist Nancy Ammerman published an edited collection, Southern Baptists Observed, that assayed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) as the conservative takeover of the denomination was triumphant and expanding. This volume examines the state of the SBC now that it has been under conservative control for a generation. Rather than asking where that change in leadership came from, the question here is what has happened since. The sweeping success of the conservative takeover--based on enforcing doctrinal fidelity, especially on issues like biblical inerrancy and so-called complementarianism, a rejection of modern, secular values, and advanced international missionary work--veiled a weakness at its very heart. By the turn of the twenty-first century, the conservative resurgence failed to attract new members and, even worse, the younger generation who had grown up in the SBC were fleeing the denomination--nearly half of them are leaving the church as adults and never coming back. The contributors to this volume all offer insights into the question of why. While conservatives dominate the SBC's governance, they have failed to resolve issues that preoccupy its members and the larger society, including those related to gender, homosexuality, race, and abuse. The essays are grouped under four broad categories: Truth and Freedom: Baptist Institutions and Contentious Issues; Defining and Defending Biblical Truth: Staking the Boundaries; Apologies, Reconciliation, and Continuing Reality; and the View from Outside. With an introduction by editor Keith Harper contextualizing the history of the movement and the issues it faces today, this collection is sure to add new insight into this influential denomination.

Southern Baptists Observed

Author : Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497704
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)

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Book Synopsis Southern Baptists Observed by : Nancy Tatom Ammerman

Download or read book Southern Baptists Observed written by Nancy Tatom Ammerman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954-1995

Author : David Roach
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666717487
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954-1995 by : David Roach

Download or read book The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954-1995 written by David Roach and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to conventional wisdom, theological liberals led the Southern Baptist Convention to reject segregation and racism in the twentieth century. That’s only half the story. Liberals criticized segregation before mainstream Southern Baptists. They created racially integrated ministry opportunities. They pressed the Southern Baptist Convention to reject segregation. Yet historians have discounted the role of conservative theology in the convention’s shift away from racial segregation and prejudice. This book chronicles how conservative theology proved remarkably compatible with efforts toward racial justice in America’s largest Protestant denomination between 1954 and 1995. At times conservative theology was even a catalyst for rejecting racial prejudice. Efforts to eradicate racism and segregation were, in fact, least successful when they appealed to the social gospel or appeared to draw from liberal theology.

In the South the Baptists are the Center of Gravity

Author : Edward L. Queen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the South the Baptists are the Center of Gravity written by Edward L. Queen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Sacred Effort

Author : Chad Brand
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433670062
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book One Sacred Effort written by Chad Brand and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preamble of the original constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention describes the purpose of the SBC as “eliciting, combining, and directing the energies of the whole denomination in one sacred effort, for the propagation of the Gospel.” These words are not only historically significant; they convey the mission and purpose and distill the distinct facets of the SBC Cooperative Program. One Sacred Effort looks close at this unique and enduring ministry operation.

God's Last and Only Hope

Author : Bill J. Leonard
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book God's Last and Only Hope written by Bill J. Leonard and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God Speaks to Us, Too

Author : Susan M. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185483
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book God Speaks to Us, Too written by Susan M. Shaw and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised as a Southern Baptist in Rome, Georgia, Susan M. Shaw earned graduate degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, was ordained a Southern Baptist minister, and prepared herself to lead a life of leadership and service among Southern Baptists. However, dramatic changes in both the makeup and the message of the Southern Baptist Convention during the 1980s and 1990s (a period known among Southern Baptists as "the Controversy") caused Shaw and many other Southern Baptists, especially women, to reconsider their allegiances. In God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society, Shaw presents her own experiences, as well as those of over 150 other current and former Southern Baptist women, in order to examine the role, identity, and culture of women in the largest Protestant denomination in the country. The Southern Baptist Convention was established in the United States in 1845 after a schism between Northern and Southern brethren over the question of slavery. Shaw sketches the history of the Southern Baptist faith from its formation, through its dramatic expansion following World War II, to the Controversy and its aftermath. The Controversy began as a successful attempt by fundamentalists within the denomination to pack the leadership and membership of the Southern Baptist Convention (the denomination's guiding body) with conservative and fundamentalist believers. Although no official strictures prohibit a Southern Baptist woman from occupying the primary leadership role within her congregation—or her own family—rhetoric emanating from the Southern Baptist Convention during the Controversy strongly discouraged such roles for its women, and church leadership remains overwhelmingly male as a result. Despite the vast difference between the denomination's radical beginnings and its current position among the most conservative American denominations, freedom of conscience is still prized. Shaw identifies "soul competency," or the notion of a free soul that is responsible for its own decisions, as the principle by which many Southern Baptist women reconcile their personal attitudes with conservative doctrine. These women are often perceived from without as submissive secondary citizens, but they are actually powerful actors within their families and churches. God Speaks to Us, Too reveals that Southern Baptist women understand themselves as agents of their own lives, even though they locate their faith within the framework of a highly patriarchal institution. Shaw presents these women through their own words, and concludes that they believe strongly in their ability to discern the voice of God for themselves.

Exiled

Author : Carl L. Kell
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334489
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Exiled written by Carl L. Kell and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been one of the major news stories in religion and culture of the past twenty-five years. From 1979 to 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was rocked by assaults on its leadership by fundamentalists, who used questionable tactics to gain top positions and then used their power to purge Baptist seminary presidents and professors, church pastors, lay leaders, and women from positions of responsibility. America's largest Christian, non-Catholic denomination is firmly locked in a holy war to secure its churches and membership for a never-ending struggle against a liberal culture. Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War is a compilation of first-person narratives by conservative and moderate ministers and lay leaders who were stripped of their positions and essentially became pariahs in the churches to which they had devoted their lives. While other books have described the takeover in historical, political, and theological terms, Exiled is different. Individual people tell their personal stories, revealing the struggle and heartache that resulted from being vilified, dispossessed, and exiled. Kell includes a variety of perspectives--from lay preachers and church members to prominent former SBC leaders such as James Dunn and Carolyn Crumpler. The emotion captured on the pages--sadness, shock, disbelief, resignation, and anger--will make Exiled moving even to readers who know little about the Southern Baptist movement. Exiled will also be of particular interest to historians, sociologists, philosophers of religion, and rhetorical historians.

Fundamentalisms Observed

Author : American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226508788
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalisms Observed written by American Academy of Arts and Sciences and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fundamentalism Project vol. 1.

The Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention

Author : James C. Hefley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929292199
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)

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Book Synopsis The Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention by : James C. Hefley

Download or read book The Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention written by James C. Hefley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention is the wrap-up book of The Truth in Crisis series and covers 70 years of eventful Southern Baptist History, climaxing in the most revolutionary change of a denomination in American church history. Here is very recent history available nowhere else, including the dramatic "Showdown at the Sunday School Board," and the account of the crucial 1991 breakthrough at Southern Seminary, "Baylor University, Saved or Stolen?" And much, much more. A "must" study for Southern Baptist pastors, agency employees, seminarians, professors and laity who want the full story of what is happening to Southern Baptists. Helpful to anyone who wishes to understand how a major church body was turned in a more conservative direction by a grassroots movement that got out the vote to defeat one of the most powerful religious establishments in America. - back cover.

The Way We Were

Author : Fisher Humphreys
Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781573123761
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Way We Were written by Fisher Humphreys and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way We Were is a book about the theological dimensions of the controversy that shook the foundations of the Southern Baptist Convention during the decades of the 80s and 90s. That controversy began at the national level, far from most Baptist laypeople, trickled down to the state Baptist conventions, where it included a much broader audience, and now has moved into local churches. --from forward

Southern Baptists and the Scriptures

Author : R. E. Glaze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Southern Baptists and the Scriptures written by R. E. Glaze and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Southern Edwardseans

Author : Obbie Tyler Todd
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647560510
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Southern Edwardseans written by Obbie Tyler Todd and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founders and forerunners of the Southern Baptist Convention were fundamentally shaped by the thought of Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards and his theological successors. While Baptists in the antebellum South boasted a different theological pedigree than Presbyterians or Congregationalists, and while they inhabited a Southern landscape unfamiliar to the bustling cities and tall forests of New England, they believed their similarities with Edwards far outweighed their differences. Like Edwards, these Baptists were revivalistic, Calvinistic, loosely confessional, and committed to practical divinity. In these four things, Southern Edwardseanism lived, moved, and had its being. In the nineteenth-century, when so many Presbyterians scoffed at Edwards's "innovation" and Methodists scorned his Calvinism, Baptists found in Edwards a man after their own heart. By 1845, at the first Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Edwardseans had laid the groundwork for a convention marked by the theology of Jonathan Edwards.

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists

Author : ed ALLEN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists written by ed ALLEN and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal

Author : David S. Dockery
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 080546459X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal by : David S. Dockery

Download or read book Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal written by David S. Dockery and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative to the controversial New Baptist Covenant, Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal calls Southern Baptists to boldly unite and renew their commitment to the gospel, biblical authority, and their confessional heritage. Endorsements "Finally, Southern Baptists of the twenty-first century are shown the way back home. David Dockery, in the convincing and studied manner so typical of all his writings, calls for a fresh return to our theological, educational, and missiological roots . . . (providing) a compass by which to steer us out of our doldrums and onto the high seas of effectiveness." —Tom Eliff, senior vice president, International Mission Board, and former president, Southern Baptist Convention. "A comprehensive and challenging mandate . . . It calls our denomination to nothing less than a Great Commission resurgence rooted in the great biblical and theological truths that we hold in common. It is my prayer that this book will not only be read, but that its vision will be embraced." —Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary "Southern Baptists stand at a crossroads today . . . David Dockery, one of our finest scholar-statesmen, points the way toward a more constructive future for a denomination called to reclaim its founding purpose of ‘eliciting, combining, and directing’ its energies in sharing the message of Jesus Christ with all the world." —Timothy George, founding dean, Beeson Divinity School "These are turbulent days in the Southern Baptist Convention . . . Our churches are struggling to reach people in a postmodern culture. Dockery reminds us that we cannot yield the gains the Convention has made in its commitment to truth and doctrinal fidelity. Yet, he offers a plan for renewal and consensus within our confessional heritage." —Thom S. Rainer, president, Lifeway Christian Resources; coauthor of Simple Church "A skillful analysis of the forces and factors which have made us who we are; a masterful discussion of theological issues that should pull us together and point us toward unity." —Frank S. Page, president, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists

Author : Slayden A. Yarbrough
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644780
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Southern Baptists written by Slayden A. Yarbrough and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Baptists have a unique and colorful story. Birthed in the time of slavery controversy, their theology on this and human rights issues has changed as cultural and societal developments occurred. One thing that never changed, however, was their zeal for evangelism. They eventually grew to become the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Later, a major controversy in the late twentieth century pitted conservative Baptists against moderates. Both sides, however, wrote histories of the controversy from their own perspectives. These histories were significant for understanding how each side interpreted the events. These pages attempt to fill a missing gap. Readers will hear the Southern Baptist story from both sides. Understand from this how Southern Baptists work, think, grow, argue, and have changed over time. They have weathered the ups and downs of history to reveal an ever-growing heritage.

Forgotten but Not Gone

Author : James Hoyle Maples
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532644140
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten but Not Gone written by James Hoyle Maples and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us are shaped in many ways by unseen markers in our DNA. Unknown ancestral traits contribute to determination of such things as eye and hair color, height, and even a certain propensity or susceptibility to certain diseases. To some extent religious bodies are similarly the product of their beliefs and doctrines, at times and in certain ways, to beliefs and doctrines buried in the inherited make-up of that body or denomination. Landmarkism is such a genetic-like marker in the Southern Baptist Convention yet is largely unknown, and its influence is barely recognized today as a contributing factor in much of Baptist practice and belief. This book seeks to trace the origin and transmission of landmark beliefs from the time of its greatest influence to the present day when it is largely unknown but certainly present in beliefs and practices that have developed and become part of the Southern Baptist body in many instances.