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Zusatztext "Wills's work is excellent, both in its scholarship and presentation...Wills has effectively shown that most of what we think we know about Baptists in nineteenth-century America is probably not true and is certainly open to reexamination...this work is one which will appeal equally to professional scholars and the academic laity, especially anyone interested in the Baptist tradition in America."--Mississippi Quarterly Klappentext No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality-a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Zusammenfassung No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists, but paradoxically, no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously. Wills demonstrates how a freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality.
