Southern Baptist Politics Authority and Power in the Restructuring of an American Denomination

Author:

Farnsley, Arthur E., II

ISBN-13:

9780271010014

ISBN:

0271010010

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press

Summary: Unlike, other recent studies of the Southern Baptists, Southern Baptist Politics was written after the culmination of the 'Baptist battles' of the 1980s, when fundamentalists has effectively taken control of the denomination. It also considers the Southern Baptist Convention not simply as a denomination but as an organization with characteristics similar to other voluntary associations in American society-an approach... that promises to be useful for the study of other religious groups in America. Arthur Farnsley concludes that the SBC, as an American denomination, had within itself the seeds of pragmatism and individualism that characterize most American voluntary organizations. [read more]

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