TY  - GEN
T1  - Anatomy of a Schism : how clergywomen's narratives reinterpret the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention
A1  - Campbell-Reed, Eileen R.
LA  - English
PP  - Knoxville
PB  - University of Tennessee Press
YR  - 2016
ED  - First edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1114289901
AB  - From 1979 to 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was mired in conflict, with the biblicist and autonomist parties fighting openly for control. This highly polarizing struggle ended in a schism that created major changes within the SBC and also resulted in the formation of several new Baptist groups. Discussions of the schism, academic and otherwise, generally ignore the church's clergywomen for the roles they played and the contributions they made to the fracturing of the largest Protestant group in the United States. Ordained women are typically treated as a contentious issue between the parties. Only recently are scholars beginning to take seriously these women's contributions and interpretations as active participants in the struggle. Anatomy of a Schism is the first book on the Southern Baptist split to place ordained women's narratives at the center of interpretation. Author Eileen Campbell-Reed brings her unique perspective as a pastoral theologian in conducting qualitative interviews with five Baptist clergywomen and allowing their narratives to focus attention on both psychological and theological issues of the split. The stories she uncovers offer a compelling new structure for understanding the path of Southern Baptists at the close of the twentieth century. The narratives of Anna, Martha, Joanna, Rebecca, and Chloe reframe the story of Southern Baptists and reinterpret the rupture and realignment in broad and significant ways. Together they offer an understanding of the schism from three interdisciplinary perspectives--gendered, psychological, and theological--not previously available together. In conversation with other historical events and documents, the women's narratives collaborate to provide specific perspectives with universal implications for understanding changes in Baptist life over the last four decades. The schism's outcomes held profound consequences for Baptist individuals and communities. (Publisher).
OP  - 212
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - BX6462.3 .C35 2016eb
SN  - 9781621902553
SN  - 1621902552
SN  - 9781621901785
SN  - 1621901785
KW  - Southern Baptist Convention : History : 20th century.
KW  - Southern Baptist Convention
KW  - Baptists : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Baptist women : United States : Interviews.
KW  - Women clergy : United States : Interviews.
KW  - Church controversies : Baptists : History : 20th century.
KW  - Christian sociology : Baptists.
KW  - Femmes baptistes : États-Unis : Entretiens.
KW  - Clergé féminin : États-Unis : Entretiens.
KW  - Controverses religieuses : Baptistes : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Sociologie religieuse : Baptistes.
KW  - Church controversies : Baptists
KW  - Baptist women
KW  - Baptists
KW  - Christian sociology : Baptists
KW  - Women clergy
KW  - United States
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Baptist
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - interviews.
KW  - History
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Interviews.
ER  -