The New Crusades, the New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991

David T. Morgan

The New Crusades, the New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Country
United States
Published
30 January 1996
Pages
264
ISBN
9780817308049

The New Crusades, the New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991

David T. Morgan

Examines the conflict between modern-day Southern Baptists and liberal Southern Baptists over control of the Southern Baptist Convention

David Morgan captures the essence of the conflict between some modern-day Southern Baptists, who saw themselves as crusaders for truth, as they sought to redeem a new holy land–the Southern Baptist Convention– from the control of other Southern Baptists they viewed as liberals. To the so-called liberals, the crusaders were fundamentalists on a mission, not to reclaim the SBC in the name of theological truth but to gain control and redirect its activities according to their narrow political, social, and theological perspectives. The New Crusades provides a comprehensive history of the conflict, taking the reader through the bitter and divisive struggles of the late 1980s, that culminated in the 1991 emergence of a moderate faction within the SBC. The fundamentalists had won.

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