Baptists and the Kingdom of God : global perspectives / T. Laine Scales and João B. Chaves, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scales, T. Laine, author.

Chaves, João B., author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kingdom of God.

Baptists--Doctrines.

Baptists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2023]

Contents:

Cover Page

Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Baptists and the Kingdom of God

I: The Kingdom of God and Ecclesiastical Interpretations: Introductory Comments

1. Collective Virtue and Baptist Ecclesiology

2. What Does Leadership Look Like in the Kingdom of God?: "Serviceable Leadership" in Rauschenbusch's The Social Principles of Jesus (1916)

3. "For the Extension of Christ's Kingdom": Australian Baptist Missionary Women in East Bengal, 1901 to 1945

II: The Kingdom of God and Eschatological Interpretations: Introductory Comments

4. Baptist Legacies in Latin America: Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Changing Views of God's Kingdom across Borders

5. Contingency, Joy, and the Kingdom of God: Theological Reflections on the Relationship between Divine and Human Joy

6. Millennial Eden?: Baptist Postmillennialism and the Shaping of the Australian Dream

III: The Kingdom of God and Social Interpretations: Introductory Comments

7. The Kingdom of God: A Dangerously Powerful Challenge to Oppression

8. Slavery, Justice, and the Kingdom of God: Mapping Baptist Hermeneutics in the Atlantic World

9. "Scotching Some Myths": Apartheid, Baptist Distinctives, and the Search for Social Concern

10. "Wonderfully Ecumenical"?: The SBC Christian Life Commission, the Mainline, and 1960s Social Concern

IV: The Kingdom of God and Providential Interpretations: Introductory Comments

11. Kingdom-Shaped Apologetics: Making Apologetics Accessible to All

12. Baptist Perspectives on Freedom and the Kingdom of God

Afterword: Seeking the Kingdom of God: With Mind and Heart

About the Contributors

About the Editors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Scales, T. Laine Baptists and the Kingdom of God

ISBN:

9781481317214

1481317210

Publisher Number:

99995259049

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Restricted for use by site license.