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Author Harper, Keith, 1957-

Title The quality of mercy : Southern Baptists and social Christianity, 1890-1920 / Keith Harper
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 167 pages) : illustrations
Contents Reclaiming a legacy: an assessment of Southern Baptists and the social gospel -- Reaching the dispossessed: Southern Baptist missions and movement culture -- Preachers and prelates: Southern Baptist leadership and the emergence of a social ethic -- Southern Baptists, social christianity, and orphanages -- Redeeming the mountaineers: Southern Baptists and mountain mission schools -- Of leopard spots and Ethiopian skin: Southern Baptists and racial uplift -- Reassessing a legacy: Southern Baptists, social christianity, and regional context
Summary The Quality of Mercy challenges the stereotypical suggestion that Southern Baptists lacked social concern demonstrating that they addressed contemporary social problems from within a distinctly southern cultural context - emphasizing family and the church but valuing community as well. Harper shows that missions were the key to enlisting support for such expanded social ministries. Baptist leaders synthesized evangelical concern with social compassion, and they convinced church members not only that the Bible sanctioned social ministries but also that such endeavors were worthy of support. The effect was twofold: Baptists built institutions to give relief to those in need, and they also used these institutions to propagate the Gospel and teach Baptist doctrine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-163) and index
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Subject Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 19th century
Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Southern Baptist Convention fast
Southern Baptist Convention gnd
Subject Church work -- Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 19th century
Church work -- Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 20th century
Christian sociology -- Baptists -- History -- 19th century
Christian sociology -- Baptists -- History -- 20th century
Church and social problems -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Church and social problems -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Baptists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Baptists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
Church work -- Southern Baptist Convention
Baptists
Christian sociology -- Baptists
Church and social problems
Kirchliche Sozialarbeit
Christianity.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Geschichte 1890-1920.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95037869
ISBN 0585255709
9780585255705