William Owen Carvers Controversies In The Baptist South
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780881462029
Description: Carver was a Southern Baptist ahead of his time, gently prodding Southern Baptists to see beyond the narrow confines of theological conservatism and to engage the modern world. In the process, Carver became embroiled in numerous denominational controversies, some of which still resonate in our world today. These stories are the subject of this book. Carver's controversies illustrate how freethinking Baptist leaders interacted with their more conservative constituency as they sought to equip the denomination for existence in a religiously diverse, scientifically oriented society. --from publisher description