Why I Am a Baptist: Reflections on Being Baptist in the 21st Century

By Dianne Smith

Book Overview

"A good book to give anyone who asks, 'How can you be a Baptist after all that?' And an encouraging work for those who say, 'I can't stop being Baptist, but I am not a Baptist.' " -Will CampbellContributors: Jimmy R. Allen, Robert C. Ballance, Jr., Tony Campolo, Jimmy Carter, Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler, James C. Denison, James M. Dunn, Jocelyn L. Foy, Carole "Kate" Harvey, Brian Haymes, Margaret B. Hess, Bill J. Leonard, Molly T. Marshall, Emmanuel L. McCall, Sr., Gary Parker, R. Keith Parks, James M. Pitts, Charles E. Poole, John Thomas Porter, Nancy Hastings Sehested, Cecil E. Sherman, Walter B. Shurden, Cecil P. Staton, Jr., Charles Frank "T" Thomas, Daniel Vestal, Charles R. Wade, and Karl Heinz WalterCecil P. Staton, Jr. is President and Publisher of Smyth & Helwys Publishing. He concurrently serves as Associate Provost for Academic Publications and Associate Professor at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573122904
• ISBN13: 9781573122900
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Argument for staying Baptist

This book is less an explanation of Baptist beliefs (although that is covered by some of the contributors) than a defense of why one should remain in the Baptist denomination even though it's leadership is overwhelmingly conservative. A diverse group of moderate to liberal Baptist leaders (Jimmy Carter and Tony Campolo among them) speak here about the historic principles that - in their view - make the Baptist denomination...