| All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970 Contributor(s): Willis, Alan Scot (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813123410 ISBN-13: 9780813123417 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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 ethnic divisions. In All According to God's Plan, Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the convention. He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptist Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Baptist - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 266.613 |
| LCCN: 2004006223 |
| Series: Religion in the South |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.18" W x 9.16" (1.28 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 ethnic divisions. In All According to God's Plan, Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the Convention. He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptists Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South. |