Author: Central Baptist Association (Wis.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Minutes of the Central Baptist Association
Author: Central Baptist Association (Wis.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Session
Author: Central Baptist Association (La.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Minutes of the Baptist Association ...
Author: Philadelphia Baptist AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Anniversary of the Vermont Baptist Convention
Author: Inventory of the Church Archives of North Carolina. Southern Baptist Convention. Raleigh Association
Author: Historical Records Survey of North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting
Author: Central Baptist Association (Miss.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Inventory of the Church Archives of New Jersey
Author: Democratic Religion
Author: Gregory A. WillsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
A Checklist of American Imprints
Author: Gospel of Disunion
Author: Mitchell SnayPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807846872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.