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Baptists in the balance : the tension between freedom and responsibility / edited by Everett C. Goodwin ; [foreword by Bill Moyers].

Contributor(s): Goodwin, Everett C
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Valley Forge, PA : Judson Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xxii, 416 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0817012478 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780817012472 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Baptists | Baptists -- United StatesLOC classification: BX6235 | .B37 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents:
Long view: aspects of the tension between freedom and responsibility / Everett C. Goodwin -- Introduction: an overview / William G. McLoughlin -- Rise of the Antipedobaptists in New England, 1630-1655 / William G. McLoughlin -- Black Baptists: the first black churches in America / C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya -- Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-93: what happened and why? / Stan Hastey -- Exercising liberty of conscience: freedom in private interpretation / Molly T. Marshall -- Biblical authority and communities of discourse / Joel B. Green -- Authority of the Bible and private interpretation: a dilemma of baptist freedom / David M. Scholer -- American Baptists: an autobiographical quest for identity / Eldon G. Ernst -- Being Baptist / James M. Dunn -- One denomination, many centers: the southern Baptist situation / Bill J. Leonard -- Reclaiming the Baptist principle of associations / Malcolm G. Shotwell -- Congregation and association: rethinking Baptist distinctives for a new century / Nancy T. Ammerman -- Responsible freedom: Baptist in early America / Edwin S. Gaustad -- Back to the bill of rights' beginning / James M. Dunn -- Baptists and the establishment clause: our commitment and challenge / Melissa Rogers -- Ebb and flow of free exercise / Oliver Thomas -- No room for bystanders / Bill Moyers -- Baptist by choice / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Why are we here? / Denton Lotz -- We knew what glory was / Shirlee Taylor Haizlip -- Development of black Baptists in Virginia, 1867-1882 / Ralph Reavis -- They called the altar "witness" / Norman S. Johnson Sr. -- Lord, we are ready / Daniel E. Weiss -- Past as present, present as past: freedom to read the self and the world / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Living under God's rule: theological reflections on Baptists distinctives / James H. Evans Jr.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Long view: aspects of the tension between freedom and responsibility / Everett C. Goodwin -- Introduction: an overview / William G. McLoughlin -- Rise of the Antipedobaptists in New England, 1630-1655 / William G. McLoughlin -- Black Baptists: the first black churches in America / C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya -- Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-93: what happened and why? / Stan Hastey -- Exercising liberty of conscience: freedom in private interpretation / Molly T. Marshall -- Biblical authority and communities of discourse / Joel B. Green -- Authority of the Bible and private interpretation: a dilemma of baptist freedom / David M. Scholer -- American Baptists: an autobiographical quest for identity / Eldon G. Ernst -- Being Baptist / James M. Dunn -- One denomination, many centers: the southern Baptist situation / Bill J. Leonard -- Reclaiming the Baptist principle of associations / Malcolm G. Shotwell -- Congregation and association: rethinking Baptist distinctives for a new century / Nancy T. Ammerman -- Responsible freedom: Baptist in early America / Edwin S. Gaustad -- Back to the bill of rights' beginning / James M. Dunn -- Baptists and the establishment clause: our commitment and challenge / Melissa Rogers -- Ebb and flow of free exercise / Oliver Thomas -- No room for bystanders / Bill Moyers -- Baptist by choice / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Why are we here? / Denton Lotz -- We knew what glory was / Shirlee Taylor Haizlip -- Development of black Baptists in Virginia, 1867-1882 / Ralph Reavis -- They called the altar "witness" / Norman S. Johnson Sr. -- Lord, we are ready / Daniel E. Weiss -- Past as present, present as past: freedom to read the self and the world / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Living under God's rule: theological reflections on Baptists distinctives / James H. Evans Jr.

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