All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970

by Alan Scot Willis

" 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813123410
• ISBN13: 9780813123417
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher