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

" 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 that dominated the South. This progressive vi

Author: Alan Scot Willis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 12/17/2004
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.18w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780813123417

About the Author

Alan Scot Willis is assistant professor of history at Northern Michigan University.

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