Southern Baptist Seminary 1859-2009

by Gregory A. Wills

Book Overview

With 16.3 million members and 44,000 churches, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist group in the world, and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Unlike the so-called mainstream Protestant denominations, Southern Baptists have remained stubbornly conservative, refusing to adapt their beliefs and practices to modernity's individualist and populist values. Instead, they have held fast to traditional orthodoxy in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195377141
• ISBN13: 9780195377149
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"