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All according to God's plan : Southern Baptist missions and race, 1945-1970 / Alan Scot Willis

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Willis, Alan Scot, 1968-
Published
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
All according to God's plan : an introduction -- "Go ye" : missions and race in Progressive Baptist theology -- All nations in God's plan : race, peace, and missions in the post-war world -- "Our preaching has caught up with us" : African missions and the race question -- An American Amos : Baptist missionaries and post-war American culture -- The Tower of Babel : language missions and the race question -- "Living our Christianity" : Southern Baptist missions and Blacks in America.
Summary
"Having long considered themselves a missionary people, Southern Baptists dramatically expanded their missionary efforts after World War II, confronting headlong the problem of racism in America. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Southern Baptist Convention's full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian. In doing so, however, they found themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies dominating the South. Thanks in part to this ideological conflict, a new, prophetic theology grounded in the belief that Christians should confront social issues slowly began to replace the traditional, provincial, and dogmatic theology prevalent among Southern Baptists."
"In All According to God's Plan, author Alan Scot Willis explores the tension and gradual change the race issue brought to the church. After the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. The Board of Education, Baptist missionaries became increasingly concerned about the hypocrisy of southerners who continued to defend segregation yet claimed to be Christians. The civil rights movement further illuminated tensions between Christian beliefs and social practice in the South. As Baptist educational institutions moved closer towards integration, southern resistance to the progressive message continued."--Jacket
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9780813172019 (electronic bk.)
0813172012 (electronic bk.)
0813123410
9780813123417
9780813149394 (electronic bk.)
0813149398 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.
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