Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the heart of Dixie

1595 Pages·1998·6 MB·English

by  Wayne Flynt

Alabama Baptists : Southern Baptists in the
title: Heart of Dixie Religion and American
Culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
author: Flynt, J. Wayne.
publisher: University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin: 0817309276
print isbn13: 9780817309275
ebook isbn13: 9780585224541
language: English
Alabama Baptist State Convention--History,
subject Baptists--Alabama--History, Alabama--
Church history.
publication date: 1998
lcc: BX6462.4.A2F57 1998eb
ddc: 286/.1761
Alabama Baptist State Convention--History,
subject: Baptists--Alabama--History, Alabama--
Church history.
Page i
Alabama Baptists
Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie
Page ii
R A C
ELIGION AND MERICAN ULTURE
Series Editors
David Edwin Harrell
Wayne Flynt
Edith L. Blumhofer
Page iii
Alabama Baptists
Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie
Wayne Flynt
Page iv
Copyright ã 1998
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Flynt, J. Wayne, 1940-
Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the heart of Dixie / Wayne
Flynt.
p. cm.(Religion and American culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8173-0927-6 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. Alabama Baptist State ConventionHistory. 2. Baptists
AlabamaHistory. 3. AlabamaChurch history. I. Title.
II. Series: Religion and American Culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
BX6462.4.A2F57 1998
286¢.1761dc21 97-44003
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Page v
For Alabama Baptists
Page vii
Contents
Preface ix
Alabama Baptist Chronology xix
1. Confronting the Frontier, 18001845 1
". . . a living spectacle of ignorance, superstition, and
crime."
2. Taming the Frontier, 18001845 35
"The seed has been sown that will bring forth much fruit."
3. The Work of the Gospel, 18451860 65
"If we don't hunt our meat, we will perish."
4. War and Reunion, 18601874 112
"He has put a bitter cup to our lips and he has said we
shall drink it."
5. Building a New South, 18751890 157
"Educate, educate, educate in order that our children may
perform a worthy part in the new age that dawns upon
us."
6. Revolt at the Forks of the Creek, 18901900 205
". . . the next thing to the church of Christ."
7. Progressivism and Baptists, 19001920 251
"I belong to the church military and not the church
millinery."
8. The Ballyhoo Years Alabama-Style, the 1920s 307
"Honest seekers after the truth."
9. The Great Depression, 19301939 360
"We love Alabama . . . well enough to see her faults as
well as her virtues."