1 comments about History of the people of Mars Hill Baptist Church & community: 1799-1999 : founded June 1, 1799 in Jackson County, then in Clarke County, and now in Oconee County, Georgia.

1. As author of this volume - want you to know that its not out of print - my mother is currently the sole seller of new volumes of this book and can be purchased at her online site of www heritagepapers dot us
   Enjoy and happy researching!

No comments about Memoirs of a "P.K." (Preachers Kid).

No comments about Edgar Young Mullins: An Intimate Biography.

1 comments about A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century.

1. Sticklin's study of Southern Baptist progressives basically contends that a vibrant, although small and loosely organized, strain of progressivism flourished within the SBC. This strand of dissent stood in stark contrast to the confident triumphalism of the Southern Baptist institutional machine and wondered what might happen if Southern Baptist energies and organizations were directed away from self-promotion and toward alleviation of human suffering. Stricklin illustrates how various personal connections created this genealogy of dissent. He then explains the dominane SBC position consensus on race, peace and justice, and women in ministry, and then shows how progressives pursued a more radical response to these issues. He then contends that the agitation of progressives, especially in the area of women in ministry, was a key factor that set in motion the fundamentalist take over of the SBC.

   Stricklin understands both progressives and fundamentalists as "outsiders" to the SBC moderate leadership. Thus Stricklin divides the SBC into three groups: 1. moderates, who placed their faith in tolerant leadership and the cooperative work of the institutions as the best way to accomplish God's will; 2. fundamentalists, who placed their faith in pure doctrine and who would rather limit the effectiveness of the institution in order to maintain doctrinal purity; and 3. progressives, who placed their faith in local congregations and informal networks and who wanted to use this grassroots movement of faith as a way to change the political and economic world.

   Fundamentalists won control of the SBC because they were able to mobilize their supporters against the moderates, who were often characterized as "liberal" because of their willingness to tolerate the progressives. While the book could do more in explaining the theology of the dissenters, it succeeds in showing the various ways of being Baptist and suggesting why these ways could no longer coexist within the SBC.

No comments about Obituaries and Marriage Notices from the Tennessee Baptist: 1844-1862.

No comments about The Minutes of Salem Baptist Church: Hamilton County, Tennessee 1872-1915.

No comments about 50 Years of Plowing Planting and Watering : Life Story of B R Lakin (Signed).

2 comments about South Carolina Baptists, 1670-1805.

1. From the founding of the first official church in 1683, the Baptist Church grew prodigiously in South Carolina. Leah Townsend's superior history of the development of the Baptist Church in South Carolina emphasizes the growth of the Church in the Low-Country, the Peedee Section, Charleston, and the Back Country, and gives a county-by-county breakdown of the various churches, with statistics of members, dates, and names of ministers. Of greatest interest to genealogists are the membership lists of the various associations and congregations which are interspersed throughout the narrative and in footnotes, many of which supply genealogical data of the first rank. In all, something like 7,000 individuals are identified in this book.



2. My ancestors' names are listed in this book, which helped me get into the DAR.

No comments about Membership Records of Seventh Baptists of Central New York State, 1797- 1940s.

No comments about Bernese Anabaptists: And Their American Descendants (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History).