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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009 [electronic resource] / Gregory A. Wills.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 566 p.) : illISBN:
  • 0199703787 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780199703784 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009.DDC classification:
  • 230.07/36132 22
LOC classification:
  • BV4070.S86 W4 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Boyce's seminary -- Making bricks without straw : war, disruption, and sacrifice -- Modernism's first martyr : Crawford H. Toy and the inspiration controversy -- All things made new : the end of the heroic age -- William H. Whitsitt, academic freedom, and denominational control -- E.Y. Mullins, Southern Seminary, and progressive theology -- Reasserting orthodoxy : Mullins and denominational leadership -- Orthodoxy, historical criticism, and the challenges of a new era -- Duke K. McCall and the struggle for the seminary's direction -- Losing trust : liberalism and the limits of realist diplomacy -- Declaring holy war : Roy L. Honeycutt and popular control -- The conservative takeover -- R. Albert Mohler and the remaking of Southern Seminary.
Summary: Tracing the history of the seminary from the beginning to the present, Wills shows how its foundational commitment to preserving orthodoxy was implanted in denominational memory in ways that strengthened the denomination's conservatism and limited the seminary's ability to stray from it. --from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Boyce's seminary -- Making bricks without straw : war, disruption, and sacrifice -- Modernism's first martyr : Crawford H. Toy and the inspiration controversy -- All things made new : the end of the heroic age -- William H. Whitsitt, academic freedom, and denominational control -- E.Y. Mullins, Southern Seminary, and progressive theology -- Reasserting orthodoxy : Mullins and denominational leadership -- Orthodoxy, historical criticism, and the challenges of a new era -- Duke K. McCall and the struggle for the seminary's direction -- Losing trust : liberalism and the limits of realist diplomacy -- Declaring holy war : Roy L. Honeycutt and popular control -- The conservative takeover -- R. Albert Mohler and the remaking of Southern Seminary.

Tracing the history of the seminary from the beginning to the present, Wills shows how its foundational commitment to preserving orthodoxy was implanted in denominational memory in ways that strengthened the denomination's conservatism and limited the seminary's ability to stray from it. --from publisher description.