| Description |
1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations, photograph |
| Series |
Religion in the South |
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Religion in the South.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. ""Go Ye"": Missions and Race in Progressive Baptist Theology; 2. All Nations in God's Plan: Peace, Race, and Missions in the Postwar World; 3. ""Our Preaching Has Caught Up with Us"": African Missions and the Race Question; 4. An American Amos: Baptist Missionaries and Postwar American Culture; 5. The Tower of Babel: Language Missions and the Race Question; 6. ""Living Our Christianity"": Southern Baptist Missions and Blacks in America; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P |
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| Summary |
Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Convention's full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian, thus finding themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies that dominated the South. This progressive view of race stressed the biblical unity of humanity, encompassing all races and transcending specific e |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Southern Baptist Convention -- Missions -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Southern Baptist Convention fast |
| Subject |
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Southern Baptist Convention -- History of doctrines -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
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Missions
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813149394 |
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0813149398 |
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0813188741 |
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9780813188744 |
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0813172012 |
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9780813172019 |
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