List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Goin' to church in dixie -- 2. Uncertain times: Trouble in zion -- 3. Preaching the word: The nature of persuasion in the Southern Baptist Holy War -- 4. All scripture is given by inspiration of God: An apologia for inerrancy -- 5. Tongues of fire: The inerrancy rhetoric of southern baptist presidents -- 6. Objectionable believers, Roger Williams, and the southern baptist oligarchy -- 7. By scripture and argument: An apologia for the ordination of women -- 8. The rhetorics of silence and abomination: The troublesome issue of homosexuality -- 9. The new southern baptists and a purified south -- Appendix 1. A baptist and his bible, II Timothy 3:14-4:13 -- Appendix 2. A conservative southern baptist affirmation -- Notes -- A bibliographical essay on the rhetorics of fundamentalism, inerrancy, and exclusion in the southern baptist convention, 1980-1994 -- Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index