Texas Baptist Leadership and Social Christianity, 1900-1980
The social upheavals of the twentieth century have elicited the gamut of responses from organized religion. The social gospel in northern Protestant circles was a response to ills from rapid industrialization, and its activism rested upon a liberal theology critical of conventional Protestantism. The social Christianity that developed in the more rural South, on the other hand, was deeply rooted in theological conservatism, and it justified its call for social action with the Bible. In Texas, the responses of Southern Baptists to social problems have ranged from an emphasis on individual sin to a growing awareness of the social imperatives of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58544-070-2
- EAN: 9781585440702
- Produktnummer: 1499790
- Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 411 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 411
Über den Autor
JOHN W. STOREY, a professor of history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, was educated at Lamar, Baylor, and the University of Kentucky. His articles on the intellectual and religious history of the South have been published in numerous journals.
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