Baptists in America
by Thomas S. Kidd & Barry Hankins | Book Summary
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Author: Thomas S. Kidd & Barry Hankins
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However, over the span of some three hundred years, Baptists became the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Not only have Baptists grown numerically, but Baptists have grown in cultural influence. Men like Billy Graham and Rick Warren, both Baptists, have often been referred to as "America's pastor" (p. ix). Additionally, Baptists control "publishing houses, missions organizations, disaster relief agencies, advocacy groups…and a good deal more" (p. ix). Once the epitome of religious outsider, "Baptists have become religious and cultural insiders" (p. ix). This is particularly true in the South, where Baptist churches continue to wield incredible cultural power. Ironically, most Baptists continue to feel like persecuted, marginalized outsiders. This "enduring feeling of being under attack" (p. x) has allowed Baptists "to be vigilant and to flourish" (p. x) well into the twenty first-century. |
Thomas S. Kidd (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Distinguished Professor of History, specializing in early American history, and the Associate Director of the Institute of the Studies of Religion at Baylor University. His numerous books include Who Is An Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis; Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father; American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths; and The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America.
Kidd also writes at the Evangelical History Blog at The Gospel Coalition and writes regularly for outlets including WORLD Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Barry Hankins is a Professor of Church History and Department Chair at Baylor University, specializing in religion and American culture. He also serves as a resident scholar with the Institute for Studies of Religion. Hankins received his bachelors and masters degrees from Baylor University, and he received his PhD from Kansas State University. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson, Jesus and Gin, and American Evangelicals, among other books and articles. He is a frequent contributor at The Gospel Coalition. Hankins formerly played basketball at Baylor, and he currently lives in Waco.
Baptists in America
by Thomas S. Kidd & Barry Hankins
[ Book Summary ]
| Author | Thomas S. Kidd & Barry Hankins |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Date | 2015 |
| Pages | 329 |
Overview:
"In America, Baptists were once the ultimate religious outsiders." (p. ix) They were mocked by the Puritans and originally banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were regularly "reviled, fined, and sometimes brutalized by authorities in England and in the American colonies" (p. ix).
However, over the span of some three hundred years, Baptists became the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Not only have Baptists grown numerically, but Baptists have grown in cultural influence. Men like Billy Graham and Rick Warren, both Baptists, have often been referred to as "America's pastor" (p. ix). Additionally, Baptists control "publishing houses, missions organizations, disaster relief agencies, advocacy groups…and a good deal more" (p. ix).
Once the epitome of religious outsider, "Baptists have become religious and cultural insiders" (p. ix). This is particularly true in the South, where Baptist churches continue to wield incredible cultural power. Ironically, most Baptists continue to feel like persecuted, marginalized outsiders. This "enduring feeling of being under attack" (p. x) has allowed Baptists "to be vigilant and to flourish" (p. x) well into the twenty first-century.
Thomas S. Kidd (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Distinguished Professor of History, specializing in early American history, and the Associate Director of the Institute of the Studies of Religion at Baylor University. His numerous books include Who Is An Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis; Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father; American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths; and The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America.
Kidd also writes at the Evangelical History Blog at The Gospel Coalition and writes regularly for outlets including WORLD Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Barry Hankins is a Professor of Church History and Department Chair at Baylor University, specializing in religion and American culture. He also serves as a resident scholar with the Institute for Studies of Religion. Hankins received his bachelors and masters degrees from Baylor University, and he received his PhD from Kansas State University. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson, Jesus and Gin, and American Evangelicals, among other books and articles. He is a frequent contributor at The Gospel Coalition. Hankins formerly played basketball at Baylor, and he currently lives in Waco.