Overview
This title celebrates 400 years of Baptist history. Taking significant events in Baptist history, the writers tell the amazing Baptist story of the voluntary approach to the Christian faith in popular, nontechnical but appealing ways. The intentionally brief chapters are, for the most part, void of heavy, historical notes. Designed as an introductory study for students, laity, and parish ministers, more advanced students will also benefit from a close reading of this text. Arranged in chronological order so that the Baptist saga can be understood as a continuous narrative, the book has the added advantage of permitting the reader to cherry-pick chapters that are of particular interest. The Baptist struggles for freedom of conscience, for a believer's church, for including both genders and all races, for fulfilling the Great Commission, and for the separation of church and state - these are only a few of the denominational-shaping turning points one discovers in this book. Written to honor the important historical writing of H. Leon McBeth, the book celebrates many of the themes that occupied Professor McBeth throughout his career.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Williams ,
Walter B. Shurden
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Imprint: Mercer University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.649kg
ISBN: 9780881461350
ISBN 10: 0881461350
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 01 September 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Author Information
MICHAEL WILLIAMS is dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of History at Dallas Baptist University. He holds the M.Div. and Ph.D. (Church History) from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of I. T. Tichenor and the Creation of a Baptist New South (University of Alabama Press), To God Be the Glory: The Centennial History of Dallas Baptist University, 1898-1998, and Victory through Faith: A History of the Rosen Heights Baptist Church. Dr. Williams is also the secretary for the Fellowship of Baptist Historians. WALTER B. SHURDEN is former chair of the department of Christianity, Callaway Professor of Christianity, and executive director of the Center for Baptist Studies. He has also served as dean of the School of Theology and professor of Church History at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, professor of religion at Carson-Newman College, and pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ruston, Louisiana. Since his retirement from Mercer in 2007, he has been designated as minister at large for Mercer University.
