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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Annual Session of the Baptist Congress for the Discussion of Current Questions, Held at ...
Author: Annual Baptist Autumnal Conference for the Discussion of Current Questions, Held ...
Author: Annual Session of the Baptist Congress for the Discussion of Current Questions, Held at ...
Author: Annual Session of the Baptist Congress
Author: Annual Session of the Baptist Congress for the Discussion of Current Questions, Held at ...
Author: Annual Session of the Baptist Congress
Author: Proceedings of the ... Annual Baptist Autumnal Conference for the Discussion of Current Questions at ...
Author: The Standard
Author: A Kingdom on Earth
Author: Paul T. PhillipsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271015804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Social Christianity was a major force in the life of the United States, Canada, and Britain for more than sixty years, beginning in the closing decades of the Victorian age. As a tide of concern swept through Protestantism in the face of mounting social ills, Social Gospelers and Christian Socialists urged a less competitive, more compassionate society. They pioneered in many fields of modern social science and actively engaged in social work and party politics. In A Kingdom on Earth, Paul T. Phillips provides an unusually broad view of the movement from both sides of the Atlantic, including the usually neglected Canada. He is also unique in carrying the story up to 1940, thereby tying Social Christianity to the origins of the welfare state. Using a wide range of sources, A Kingdom on Earth places the activities of Social Christians firmly in the social and cultural contexts of the day. Phillips's analysis reveals the dilemmas of a movement that sought to achieve social harmony and justice through close cooperation with secular reformism. Such dilemmas invariably led to rivalries with competing ideologies and brought secularizing influences into the churches themselves. In spite of these worldly aspects, however, Phillips finds that the inspiration and essence of the movement were essentially religious.
The Making of a Battle Royal
Author: Jeffrey Paul StraubPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153261666X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
American Baptists emerged from the Civil War as a divided group. Slavery, landmarkism, and other issues sundered Baptists into regional clusters who held more or less to the same larger doctrinal sentiments. As the century progressed, influences from Europe further altered the landscape. A new way to view the Bible—more human, less divine—began to shape Baptist thought. Moreover, Darwinian evolutionism altered the way religion was studied. Religion, like humanity itself, was progressing. Conservative Baptists—proto fundamentalists—objected to these alterations. Baptist bodies had a new enemy—theological liberalism. The schools were at the center of the story in the earliest days as professors, many of whom studied abroad, returned to the United States with progressive ideas that were passed on to their students. Soon these ideas were being presented at denominational gatherings or published in denomination papers and books. Baptists agitated over the new views, with some professors losing their jobs when they strayed too far from historic Baptists commitments. By 1920, the Northern Baptists, in particular, broke out into an all-out war over theology that came to be called “The Fundamentalist-Modernist” controversy. This is the fifty-year history behind that controversy.