TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willis,Alan Scot
TI  - All according to God's plan: Southern Baptist missions and race, 1945-1970 
T2  - Religion in the South
SN  - 9780813172019
AV  - BV2520 .W55 2005eb
U1  - 266/.6132/089 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Southern Baptist Convention
KW  - Missions
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Racism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Racisme
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mission
KW  - Rassenfrage
KW  - Evangelisation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index; All according to God's plan : an introduction -- "Go ye" : missions and race in Progressive Baptist theology -- All nations in God's plan : race, peace, and missions in the post-war world -- "Our preaching has caught up with us" : African missions and the race question -- An American Amos : Baptist missionaries and post-war American culture -- The Tower of Babel : language missions and the race question -- "Living our Christianity" : Southern Baptist missions and Blacks in America
N2  - "Having long considered themselves a missionary people, Southern Baptists dramatically expanded their missionary efforts after World War II, confronting headlong the problem of racism in America. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Southern Baptist Convention's full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian. In doing so, however, they found themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies dominating the South. Thanks in part to this ideological conflict, a new, prophetic theology grounded in the belief that Christians should confront social issues slowly began to replace the traditional, provincial, and dogmatic theology prevalent among Southern Baptists."; "In All According to God's Plan, author Alan Scot Willis explores the tension and gradual change the race issue brought to the church. After the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. The Board of Education, Baptist missionaries became increasingly concerned about the hypocrisy of southerners who continued to defend segregation yet claimed to be Christians. The civil rights movement further illuminated tensions between Christian beliefs and social practice in the South. As Baptist educational institutions moved closer towards integration, southern resistance to the progressive message continued."--Jacket
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