Southern Baptist Convention and the Judgement of History

Copeland…points out fruitful avenues of research and suggests new questions. . . . He clarifies his thesis against critics of the first edition by reminding his readers the he never intended to show slavery as the sole cause of what he calls the 'various aberrations of the Southern Baptist Convention,' just one of the oldest and most persistent.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 Preface to Revised EditionChapter 4 Abbreviations Used in this BookChapter 5 Introduction: Our Present Predicament and the Burden of Our HistoryChapter 6 A System "Instituted and Commanded by God:" The SBC, Slavery, and Southern IdentityChapter 7 "Keeping the Negro in His Place:" The Continuation of Racism among Southern BaptistsChapter 8 Anglo-Saxons— "God's Pre-eminent Missionary Race:" Racism and Missionary PaternalismChapter 9 "Free to Serve as a Source of Blessing Anywhere:" Southern Baptists and American BaptistsChapter 10 "Our Theology, Our Doctrines, Our Methods are Complete:" Southern Baptists and Other ChristiansChapter 11 "First in the Edenic Fall:" The Southern Baptist Enforcement of OrthodoxyChapter 12 ConclusionChapter 13 Appendix IChapter 14 Appendix IIChapter 15 NotesChapter 16 BibliographyChapter 17 IndexChapter 18 About the Author