Doing the word : Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and its predecessors, 1907-1997 / T. Laine Scales and Melody Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scales, T. Laine, author.

Maxwell, Melody, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carver School of Missions and Social Work (Louisville, Ky.)--History.

Carver School of Missions and Social Work (Louisville, Ky.).

Southern Baptist Convention--Education--Kentucky--Louisville--History.

Southern Baptist Convention.

Baptist women--Education (Higher)--Kentucky--Louisville--History.

Baptist women.

Baptists--Education (Higher)--Kentucky--Louisville--History.

Baptists.

Women missionaries--Training of--Kentucky--Louisville--History.

Women missionaries.

Missionaries--Training of--Kentucky--Louisville--History.

Missionaries.

Baptists--Education (Higher).

Education.

Missionaries--Training of.

Women missionaries--Training of.

History.

Education, Higher.

Kentucky--Louisville.

Kentucky.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This work will present a complete history of women's education in a Southern Baptist context by examining the Women's Missionary Union Training School (commonly referred to as the Carver School). Established in 1907, the school provided recognition that the denomination needed educated, female leadership but also sought to limit this leadership to missionary work and away from pastoral ministry and other forms of leadership in the church. The history of the school reflects the changing nature of the denomination as a whole, embodying broad social concern at certain times, but the school became increasingly under fire as the Southern Baptist takeover loomed in the early nineties"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: laying a foundation

Building a home and school for the ladies, 1907-1917

"From house beautiful to life beautiful", 1918-1941

Shifting foundations of the new house beautiful, 1942-1957

A guest in another's house, 1958-1983

Constructing a new Carver School, 1984-1992

And the walls came tumbling down, 1993-1997

Epilogue: out of the rubble: rebuilding the post-Carver School legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Scales, T. Laine. Doing the word.

ISBN:

9781621903604

1621903605

OCLC:

1097466863

Publisher Number:

99983730844