Freedom of Conscience
Subtitle: A Baptist/Humanist Dialogue
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: February 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781573927666
Subjects: Baptist Churches; Humanist & secular alternatives to religion; Humanistic ethics; Comparative Religion; Sociology Of Religion; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Movements - Humanism; Christianity - Baptist; Christianity - Baptists; General; Baptist authors; Christian ethics; Congresses
First sentence: With apologies to Shakespeare and Julius Caesar, I have not come to bury humanism but to praise it.
Description: At a historic dialogue convened at the University of Richmond, Virginia, Baptist and secular humanist scholars in theology, history, philosophy, and the social sciences, came together to define shared concerns and common values. The dialogue focused on major areas of concern: academic freedom; social, political, and religious tolerance; biblical scholarship; separation of church and state; the social agenda of the Christian Coalition and the Southern Baptist Convention; the danger of militant fundamentalism; freedom of conscience and the historic and current role of American Baptists; as well as the plight of pluralistic democracy.