A Texas Baptist Power Struggle

Author : Joseph Everett Early
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411950
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Texas Baptist Power Struggle written by Joseph Everett Early and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Tells how Samuel Augustus Hayden, almost destroyed the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Hayden caused such unrest among Texas Baptists, that he was expelled from the state body. He created the Baptist Missionary Association (BMA), which continued to fight perceived oppression by the BGCT.

Author : Joseph L. Locke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190216298
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the Bible Belt written by Joseph L. Locke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the reality he described was only the closing chapter of a long historical process. Into the twentieth century, a robust anticlerical tradition still challenged religious forays into southern politics. Inside southern churches, an insular evangelical theology looked suspiciously on political meddling. Outside of the churches, a popular anticlericalism indicted activist ministers with breaching the boundaries of their proper spheres of influence, calling up historical memories of the Dark Ages and Puritan witch hunts. Through the politics of prohibition, and in the face of bitter resistance, a complex but shared commitment to expanding the power and scope of religion transformed southern evangelicals' inward-looking restraints into an aggressive, self-assertive, and unapologetic political activism. The decades-long religious crusade to close saloons and outlaw alcohol in the South absorbed the energies of southern churches and thrust religious leaders headlong into the political process--even as their forays into southern politics were challenged at every step. Early defeats impelled prohibitionist clergy to recast their campaign as a broader effort not merely to dry up the South, but to conquer anticlerical opposition and inject religion into public life. Clerical activists churned notions of history, race, gender, and religion into a powerful political movement and elevated ambitious leaders such as the pugnacious fundamentalist J. Frank Norris and Senator Morris Sheppard, the "Father of National Prohibition." Exploring the controversies surrounding the religious support of prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reconstructs the purposeful, decades-long campaign to politicize southern religion, hints at the historical origins of the religious right, and explores a compelling and transformative moment in American history.

Author : Joseph Everett Early
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411764
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook written by Joseph Everett Early and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A companion volumn to Harry Leon McBeth's texas baptists. A definitive collection of primary sources in Texas Baptist history. A indispensable source of information for anything relating to Baptists in Texas.

Author : Benjamin Franklin Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Baptists of Texas written by Benjamin Franklin Riley and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Framklin Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Texas Baptists written by Benjamin Framklin Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Milton Carroll
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725284367
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Texas Baptists written by James Milton Carroll and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Baptists. Texas. General Convention. Executive Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centennial Story of Texas Baptists ... written by Baptists. Texas. General Convention. Executive Board and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Milton Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Texas Baptists written by James Milton Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Woodrow Storey
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412450
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Texas written by John Woodrow Storey and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays which cover Indians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, women, religion, war on the homefront, music, literature, film, art, sports, philanthropy, education, the environment, and science and technology in twentieth-century Texas.

Author : James A. Patterson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433675986
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Robinson Graves written by James A. Patterson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Robinson Graves (1820-1893) is known for firmly believing that Baptists of his day needed clearly distinct markers in order to preserve a meaningful denominational identity. The founder of Landmarkism, his theology emphasized church succession (an unbroken trail of authentic congregations dating back to the New Testament), the local church (rather than the idea of a universal Body of Christ), and strict baptism guidelines. In this first biography of Graves in more than eighty years, author James A. Patterson portrays the man as bold and brash. A native of Vermont who moved south to Nashville in 1845, the self-educated preacher and budding journalist would become a combative defender of the Baptist cause, engaging in public controversy with Methodists, Restorationists, and even fellow Baptists. Ultimately, Graves sought to influence the direction of the Southern Baptist Convention in its formative period and was the primary shaper of the “Tennessee Tradition,” now considered a key strand of Southern Baptist life and identity. By focusing on Graves’s understanding of essential Baptist boundary markers, this book assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Landmark legacy. It concludes with an epilogue that discusses the enduring influence of his ideas in the decades after his death.