The Ideal of Professionalism and the White Southern Baptist Ministry, 1870-1920
In 1917, a Baptist minister in Henderson, North Carolina, wrote to a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) worker of the frustrations pastors encountered in teaching their parishioners a “progressive” religious ethic appropriate for the age: Nearly all of us are driven by the force of circumstances to b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1995
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Religion and American culture
Year: 1995, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 99-123 |
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| Summary: | In 1917, a Baptist minister in Henderson, North Carolina, wrote to a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) worker of the frustrations pastors encountered in teaching their parishioners a “progressive” religious ethic appropriate for the age: Nearly all of us are driven by the force of circumstances to be a bit more conservative than it is in our hearts to be. I am frank to say to you that I have found it out of the question to move people in the mass at all, unless you go with a slowness that sometimes seems painful; and I have settled down to the conviction that it is better to lead people slowly than not at all. |
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| ISSN: | 1533-8568 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and American culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/rac.1995.5.1.03a00050 |