All according to God's plan : Southern Baptist missions and race, 1945-1970 /
Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Convention's full-time m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Alemán Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2005.
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Colección: | Religion in the South.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Convention's full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian, thus finding themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies that dominated the South. This progressive view of race stressed the biblical unity of humanity, encompassing all races and transcending specific e. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations, photograph |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813149394 0813149398 0813188741 9780813188744 0813172012 9780813172019 |