A Baptist Democracy: Separating God from Caesar in the Land of the Free
Lee Canipe argues that modern Baptists, especially those of the more progressive “moderate” strain, have embraced a version of Baptist identity that so valorizes autonomous individual freedom that it has exchanged its traditional theological content for a “spiritualized echo of American democratic c...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Review |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Jahr: 2013, Band: 55, Heft: 2, Seiten: 355-358 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Lee Canipe argues that modern Baptists, especially those of the more progressive “moderate” strain, have embraced a version of Baptist identity that so valorizes autonomous individual freedom that it has exchanged its traditional theological content for a “spiritualized echo of American democratic culture” (p. 5). The process had its roots in the era of the American Revolution but was completed only in the early twentieth century. Walter Rauschenbush, Edgar Y. Mullins, and George W. Truett, Canipe explains, were the chief malefactors in this tragic transformation. Canipe identifies with the communitarian emphases of Duke University's Stanley Hauerwas and Curtis Freeman and in places draws upon their arguments., Canipe is correct that such a transformation occurred. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst021 |