The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954–1995
The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954–1995

Author: David Roach

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1666717509

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According to conventional wisdom, theological liberals led the Southern Baptist Convention to reject segregation and racism in the twentieth century. That's only half the story. Liberals criticized segregation before mainstream Southern Baptists. They created racially integrated ministry opportunities. They pressed the Southern Baptist Convention to reject segregation. Yet historians have discounted the role of conservative theology in the convention's shift away from racial segregation and prejudice. This book chronicles how conservative theology proved remarkably compatible with efforts toward racial justice in America's largest Protestant denomination between 1954 and 1995. At times conservative theology was even a catalyst for rejecting racial prejudice. Efforts to eradicate racism and segregation were, in fact, least successful when they appealed to the social gospel or appeared to draw from liberal theology.

The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson
The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson

Author: Jared E. Alcántara

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-10-18

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0197598811

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The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson remains one of the most important but least known figures of twentieth-century African American Christian history. In this book, Jared E. Alcántara sets out a definitive academic biography of this complex figure.

Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention.; 1905
Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention.; 1905

Author: Southern Baptist Convention

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781015050754

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