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Harper, Keith

 
9780817308148: The Quality of Mercy: Southern Baptists and Social Christianity, 1890-1920
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ISBN 10: 0817308148 ISBN 13: 9780817308148
Editorial: The University of Alabama Press, 1996

Sinopsis

Many academics have assumed that America's Southern Baptists expressed little social conscience. This study challenges this view, arguing that Southern Baptists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were more attentive to social concerns than has been supposed.

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Acerca del autor

Keith Harper is Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi College.

De la contraportada

The Quality of Mercy challenges the stereotypical suggestion that Southern Baptists lacked social concern demonstrating that they addressed contemporary social problems from within a distinctly southern cultural context - emphasizing family and the church but valuing community as well. Harper shows that missions were the key to enlisting support for such expanded social ministries. Baptist leaders synthesized evangelical concern with social compassion, and they convinced church members not only that the Bible sanctioned social ministries but also that such endeavors were worthy of support. The effect was twofold: Baptists built institutions to give relief to those in need, and they also used these institutions to propagate the Gospel and teach Baptist doctrine.

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Editorial
The University of Alabama Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0817308148
ISBN 13 
9780817308148
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
176
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