Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
‘Through a Glass Darkly is thoroughly researched and annotated. There is no question this book has the requisite merit.’—Arthur E. Farnsley II, author of Southern Baptist Politics: Authority and Power in the Restructuring of an American Denomination
[. . .] this collection of essays provides a number of intriguing areas through which to explore Baptist identity, and [...] could serve as a welcomed supplemental textbook in a class on Baptist history. It is a worthy contribution to the history of Baptists.
—Tennessee Baptist History Journal
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Key Themes
1. Baptists, Church, and State: Rejecting Establishments, Relishing Privilege
Bill J. Leonard
2. Democratic Religion Revisited: Early Baptists in the American South
Jewel L. Spangler
Part II. Biography
3. Persecution and Polemics: Baptists and the Shaping of the Roger Williams Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
James P. Byrd
4. E. Y. Mullins and the Siren Songs of Modernity
Curtis W. Freeman
5. The Contested Legacy of Lottie Moon: Southern Baptists, Women, and Partisan Protestantism
Elizabeth H. Flowers
6. Walter Rauschenbusch and the Second Coming: The Social Gospel as Baptist History
Christopher H. Evans
7. "I Am Fundamentally a Clergyman, a Baptist Preacher": Martin Luther King Jr., Social Christianity, and the Baptist Faith in an Era of Civil Rights
Edward R. Crowther
Part III. Historiography
8. "Written that Ye May Believe": Primitive Baptist Historiography
John G. Crowley
9. Reframing the Past: The Impact of Institutional and Ideological Agendas on Modern Interpretations of Landmarkism
James A. Patterson
10. Is There a River?: Black Baptists, the Uses of History, and the Long History of the Freedom Movement
Paul Harvey
11. Symbolic History in the Cold War Era
Alan Scot Willis
12. Southern Baptists and the F-Word: A Historiography of the Southern Baptist Convention Controversy and What It Might Mean
Barry Hankins
Contributors
Index
