Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009 / Gregory A. Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wills, Gregory A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary--History.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Conservatism--Religious aspects--Southern Baptist Convention--History.

Conservatism.

Conservatism--Religious aspects--Southern Baptist Convention.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 566 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Tracing the history of the seminary from the beginning to the present, Wills shows how its foundational commitment to preserving orthodoxy was implanted in denominational memory in ways that strengthened the denomination's conservatism and limited the seminary's ability to stray from it. --from publisher description

Contents:

Boyce's seminary

Making bricks without straw : war, disruption, and sacrifice

Modernism's first martyr : Crawford H. Toy and the inspiration controversy

All things made new : the end of the heroic age

William H. Whitsitt, academic freedom, and denominational control

E.Y. Mullins, Southern Seminary, and progressive theology

Reasserting orthodoxy : Mullins and denominational leadership

Orthodoxy, historical criticism, and the challenges of a new era

Duke K. McCall and the struggle for the seminary's direction

Losing trust : liberalism and the limits of realist diplomacy

Declaring holy war : Roy L. Honeycutt and popular control

The conservative takeover

R. Albert Mohler and the remaking of Southern Seminary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195377149

0195377141

OCLC:

300718423