Not an Easy Journey : Some Transitions in Baptist Life

by Shurden, Walter B.

• ISBN13: 9780865549333
• ISBN10: 0865549338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Author Biography

Walter B. Shurden is currently professor of Christianity in the Roberts Department of Christianity and executive director of the Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1. Baptists and Their Distinctives
Why I Am a Baptist
Second Baptist Church, Greenville, Mississippi	1	(13)
Baptists and a Brief Overview of Their History
Turning Points in Baptist History	14	(9)
Baptists and Their Identity
The Baptist Identity and the Baptist Manifesto	23	(25)
Baptists and Religious Liberty
How We Got That Way: Baptists on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State	48	(16)
Baptists and the Priesthood of All Believers
The Priesthood of All Believers and Pastoral Authority in Baptist History	64	(24)
Baptists and Church Polity
Church and Association: A Search for Boundaries	88	(13)
Baptist Historians Interpret The Baptist Vision
John E. Steely: On Being Baptist	101	(17)
C. Penrose St. Arrant: Interpreter of the Baptist Vision	118	(18)
2. Baptists and Southern Baptist Convention History
The SBC and Its History
A Historical Overview of the Southern Baptist Convention	136	(10)
The SBC and Its Origins
The Origins of the Southern Baptist Convention: A Historiographical Study	146	(22)
The SBC and Its Pastors
he Pastor as Denominational Theologian in Southern Baptist History	168	(13)
The SBC and Its Confessions
Southern Baptist Responses to Their Confessional Statements	181	(19)
The SBC and Its Division
The Southern Baptist Synthesis: Is It Cracking?	200	(15)
The SBC and the Inerrancy Controversy
The Inerrancy Debate: A Comparative Study of Southern Baptist Controversies	215	(12)
The SBC and Its Identity at the Mid-Twentieth Century
What "Being Baptist" Meant for Southern Baptists during World War II	227	(21)
3. Baptists and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship History
CBF and Its Beginnings
Reflections on the Baptist Consultation of Moderates in Atlanta, 23-25 August 1990	248	(8)
CBF and Its Statement of Identity
An Address to the Public	256	(5)
A Brief History of "An Address to the Public"	261	(5)
CBF and a Newspaper
A Ten-Year Birthday Letter to Baptists Today	266	(8)
CBF and a Publishing Company
A Birthday Letter to Three-Year-Old Smyth & Helwys	274	(6)
CBF: Its First Decade
A Decade of Promise	280	(7)
Six Words for the First Ten Years of CBF	287	(7)
CBF and an Ethics Agency
Whispered Blessings	294	(4)
CBF and Reflections on the Holy War
Twenty Reflections after Twenty Years	298	(3)
CBF and the Future
CBF and Baptists in the Year 2010	301
4. A Bibliography
Baptist Books That Have Been Important to Me	305