Contending for the Faith
Subtitle: Southern Baptists in New Mexico, 1938-1995
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: October 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780826328373
Subjects: Baptist Churches; Religion: general; History; Christianity - Baptists; Religion - Church History; Southern Baptist Convention; Religion; New Mexico; Christianity - Baptist; Christianity - History - Protestant; Religion / Baptists; Baptist Convention of New Mexico; 20th century; Baptist Convention of New Mexi; Church history
Description: "The Baptists worked hard to provide social and religious services throughout New Mexico in an effort to increase their membership. By the 1960s they managed to create a religious climate where nearly one out of every two Protestants in the state was a Baptist. But after the cultural transformations of the 1960s, the Baptists appeared out of harmony, even in conflict, with a more relativistic world.".

"Today, Carnett argues, Baptists in New Mexico and around the United States are again trying to adapt to the world around them, but in the process they are being shaped more by the culture than transforming it. Their shift in focus to helping people cope with the difficulties of modern life at the expense of theology alienates as many Baptists as it concerts new ones."--BOOK JACKET.