Into the pulpit : Southern Baptist women and power since World War II / by Elizabeth H. Flowers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flowers, Elizabeth Hill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptist women--United States--History.

Baptist women.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Southern Baptist Convention--History of doctrines.

Sex role.

Southern Baptist Convention--History.

Southern Baptist Convention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. Elizabeth Flowers argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women--all of whom had much at stake--disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary. And, in the turbulent postwar era, debate over their roles caused fierce internal controversy. While the legacy of race and civil rights lingered well into the 1990's, views on women's submission to male authority provided

Contents:

Into the center pulpit : a dangerous dream

Redigging the old wells : the Christian woman versus woman's lib

A rattlesnake in the house : the beginning of the controversy

First tier in the realm of salvation : gracious submission

Behold a new thing? : moderate life.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908856-5-4

979-88-9313-439-1

1-4696-0182-6

0-8078-6998-8

OCLC:

781378077