Democratic Religion Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900

Name: Democratic Religion Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900
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ISBN: 9780195104127

ISBN-10: 0195104129

ISBN-13: 9780195104127

Edition: 1997

Authors: Gregory A. Wills

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No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideals than did the Baptists. Paradoxically, no denomination wielded more religious authority than they did. Wills looks at these two rival strains within the church.

Book details

List price: $76.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/12/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.49" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

DAVID S. DOCKERY has been president of UnionUniversity in Jackson, Tennessee, since 1995. He is a muchsought-after speaker and lecturer, a consulting editor for Christianity Today , and the author or editor of more thantwenty-five books, including Southern Baptist Consensus andRenewal and Theologians of the Baptist Tradition .



Preface


Introduction Religious Authority and the Democratic Impulse



Democratic Exclusivism



Democracies Primitive and Pure



Democratic Authority



Democracy, Race, and Gender



African-American Democracies



Freedom, Authority, and Doctrine



Associations, Creeds, and Calvinism



Democratic Religion Transformed


Conclusion


Notes


Index