Texas Baptist Leadership and Social Christianity, 1900-1980 (TEXAS A AND M SOUTHWESTERN STUDIES)

by John W. Storey

Book Overview

The social upheavals of the twentieth century have elicited the gamut of responses from organized religion. The "social gospel" in northern Protestant circles was a response to ills from rapid industrialization, and its activism rested upon a liberal theology critical of conventional Protestantism. The "social Christianity" that developed in the more rural South, on the other hand, was deeply rooted in theological conservatism, and it justified its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890962510
• ISBN13: 9780890962510
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"