| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
America's Baptists |
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America's Baptists.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Keith Harper -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Founding a College-Town Church -- 2. Town and Gown: Binkley and the 1960s -- 3. The Rise and Fall of a College-Town Church -- 4. Binkley in Transition -- 5. Every Member a Minister -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book examines how a Southern Baptist congregation emerged as a bastion of liberal Christianity in late twentieth-century Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Andrew B. Gardner narrates a detail-rich history, from the late 1950s to the 2010s, of the Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church through the lens of its social witness mission. While it is a concrete congregational history of a single church community-with profiles of prominent members like the University of North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith and influential clergy like Robert Seymour and Linda Jordan-Gardner also uses the story to examine how congregations more generally change and evolve. He contends that recurring conflicts on various issues in the life of a congregation-in Binkley's case, from building projects to civil rights, women's ordination, and LGBTQ inclusion-are the primary drivers of its development"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2023) |
| Subject |
Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- History
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Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) |
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Chapel Hill (N.C.) -- Church history
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North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022056875 |
| ISBN |
9781621908043 |
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1621908046 |
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