| Series |
America's Baptists
America's Baptists. ^A1297762
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| Abstract |
"This book examines how a Southern Baptist congregation emerged as a bastion of liberal Christianity in late twentieth-century Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Andrew B. Gardner narrates a detail-rich history, from the late 1950s to the 2010s, of the Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church through the lens of its social witness mission. While it is a concrete congregational history of a single church community-with profiles of prominent members like the University of North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith and influential clergy like Robert Seymour and Linda Jordan-Gardner also uses the story to examine how congregations more generally change and evolve. He contends that recurring conflicts on various issues in the life of a congregation-in Binkley's case, from building projects to civil rights, women's ordination, and LGBTQ inclusion-are the primary drivers of its development"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Gardner, Andrew B., 1990- Binkley. First edition Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2023 9781621908043 |
| Genre/form | Church history. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022056874 |
| ISBN | 9781621907886 |
| ISBN | 1621907880 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
