Title The new crusades, the new Holy Land : conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991 / David T. Morgan

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) Contents A sketch of the problem -- Overwhelmed by religion and ideology -- Fundamentalism and the Bible -- Fundamentalism and the Christian witness -- A new ecumenism -- The catholicizing of the Southern Baptist Convention -- Church-state and the culture war -- The anatomy of Fundamentalism: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary -- The great silence -- The new Southern Baptist Convention -- The lingering chill -- Life in the system: purely personal Summary The author details the conflict between some modern-day Southern Baptists, who saw themselves as crusaders for truth, as they sought to redeem a new holy land--the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)--from the control of other Southern Baptists they viewed as "liberals." To the so-called liberals, the crusaders were "fundamentalists" on a mission, not to reclaim the SBC in the name of theological truth, but to gain control and redirect its activities according to their narrow political, social, and theological perspectives. Book briefly discusses the founding of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) Analysis Baptist churches United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 20th century Southern Baptist Convention -- Doctrines SUBJECT Southern Baptist Convention fast Southern Baptist Convention gnd Subject Baptists -- United States -- History -- 20th century Church controversies -- Baptists -- History -- 20th century Baptists -- Doctrines Fundamentalism -- United States -- History RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist. Church controversies -- Baptists Baptists Baptists -- Doctrines Fundamentalism Theology, Doctrinal Geschichte 1969-1991. SUBJECT United States -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139929 Subject United States Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585184119 9780585184111

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