Distinctively Baptist : Essays on Baptist History

by Shurden, Walter B.; Jolley, Marc A.; Pierce, J. D.

• ISBN13: 9780865547704
• ISBN10: 086554770X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword. Honoring Leadership with Integrity	vii
John D. Pierce
Preface	xi
Marc A. Jolley
1. Faces in the Mirror: A Personal Tribute to Walter B. Shurden	1	(6)
William L. Blevins
2. Changing a Theology: Baptists, Salvation, and Globalism, Then and Now	7	(10)
Bill J. Leonard
3. Oh, Baptists, How Your Corporation Has Grown!	17	(18)
E. Glenn Hinson
4. History: Opportunities and Responsibilities	35	(6)
Edwin Gaustad
5. Baptists and Continuity	41	(18)
William Brackney
6. Baptist History as Ministry	59	(16)
Charles W. Deweese
7. Second Baptist Church, Atlanta: A Paradigm of Southern Baptist Identity in the Nineteenth Century	75	(24)
Douglas Weaver
8. Keeping the Faith in the Open Country: The Legacy of Cego Baptist Church	99	(16)
Glenn Jonas
9. A History of the Department of Religion at Carson-Newman College	115	(22)
Merrill M. Hawkins, Jr.
10. Anglo-Saxon Supremacy and the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention	137	(14)
Robert N. Nash, Jr.
11. The Liberty Not to Be a Christian: Robert Robinson (1735-1790) of Cambridge and Freedom of Conscience	151	(20)
Karen Smith
12. The Peculiar Welsh Piety of The Customs of Primitive Churches	171	(22)
Wm. Loyd Allen
13. Baptist Women in America, 1638-1800	193	(26)
Pam Durso
14. Baptist Women in Seventeenth-Century England	219	(18)
Carolyn DeArmond Blevins
15. William Heth Whitsitt: Martyrdom of a Moderate	237	(42)
William Hull
16. A Distinctively Baptist Bibliography	279	(24)
Edmon L. Rowell, Jr.
Contributors	303