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Selected
Bibliography
Those
who wish to read in greater detail about the Fundamentalist Takeover of
the Southern Baptist Convention will find useful information in the
following books:
Ammerman,
Nancy Tatom. Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern
Baptist Convention.
New Brunswick
:
Rutgers
University
Press, 1990. (Excellent sociological study of the controversy.)
Ammerman,
Nancy Tatom. Southern Baptists
Observed: Multiple Perspectives on a Changing Denomination.
Knoxville
:
University
of
Tennessee
Press, 1993. (An excellent sociological study.)
Baugh,
John G. The
Battle
For Baptist Integrity.
Austin
,
TX
:
Battle
for Baptist Integrity, Inc., 1995. (The highly readable observations of a
longtime, involved Southern Baptist layman.)
Cothen,
Grady C. What Happened to the
Southern Baptist Convention? A Memoir of the Controversy.
Macon
,
GA
: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1993.
Cothen,
Grady C. The New SBC:
Fundamentalism’s Impact On The Southern Baptist Convention.
Macon
,
GA
: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Durso,
Pamela R. A Short History of the
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Brentwood
,
TN
: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2006. (A very brief but helpful
history of CBF.)
Ferguson
, Robert U. Amidst
Babel
, Speak Truth: Reflections on the Southern Baptist Struggle.
Macon
,
GA
: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1993. (Articles on various aspects
of the controversy, written by a variety of moderate scholars.)
Gourley,
Bruce T. The GodMakers: A Legacy of
the Southern Baptist Convention?
Franklin
,
TN
:
Providence
House Publishers, 1996. (An analysis of the Fundamentalist Takeover of the
SBC.)
Hankins,
Barry. Uneasy in
Zion
: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture.
Tuscaloosa
:
University
of
Alabama
Press, 2003. (Examines the SBC Takeover in light of conservative reaction
to American culture.)
Humphreys,
Fisher, editor. The Controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention: A Special Issue of
the Theological Educator.
New Orleans
:
New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary, 1985. (A compendium of articles and
interviews by persons on differing sides of the conflict.)
Humphreys,
Fisher, editor. Polarities in the Southern Baptist Convention: A Special Issue of the
Theological Educator.
New Orleans
:
New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988. (Additional articles and interviews
with major personalities on different sides of the controversy.)
Humphreys,
Fisher. The Way We Were: How
Southern Baptist Theology Has Changed and What It Means To Us All.
Macon
,
GA
: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 2002.
Kell,
Carl L., editor. Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Holy War.
Knoxville
:
University
of
Tennessee
Press, 2006.
Leonard,
Bill J. God’s Last and Only Hope:
The Fragmentation of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Grand Rapids
,
MI
: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990.
May,
Lynn E., editor. “The Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-1993: What
Happened and Why?” Baptist History and Heritage 28 (October 1993). (Entire issue is
devoted to the controversy, including essays from persons on both sides.)
Merritt,
John W. The Betrayal: The Hostile
Takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and a Missionary’s Fight for
Freedom in Christ.
Asheville
,
NC
: R. Brent and Company, 2005. (The personal experiences and observations
of a former Southern Baptist missionary.)
Morgan,
David T. The New Crusades, The New
Holy Land
: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1968-1991.
Tuscaloosa
:
University
of
Alabama
Press, 1996. (Historical analysis; includes interviews with major
players.)
Pool,
Jeff B. Against Returning to
Egypt
: Exposing and Resisting Creedalism in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Macon
:
Mercer
University
Press, 1998. (Analysis of the 1994 “Report of the Presidential
Theological Study Committee.”)
Robison,
James B., editor. The Unfettered Word: Confronting the Authority–Innerancy Question.
Macon
,
GA
: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1994.
(Various articles on the issue of Biblical authority and Biblical
inerrancy.)
Rosenberg,
Ellen M. The Southern Baptists: A Subculture in Transition.
Knoxville
:
University
of
Tennessee
Press, 1989. (Sociological study.)
Shurden,
Walter B. and Randy Sheply, editors. Going
for the Jugular: A Documentary History of the SBC Holy War.
Macon
,
GA
:
Mercer
University
Press, 1996. (A useful chronology of the controversy, along with the
publication of articles dealing with the events of the controversy as they
occurred.)
Shurden,
Walter B., editor. The Struggle for the Soul of the SBC: Moderate Responses to the
Fundamentalist Movement.
Macon
,
GA
:
Mercer
University
Press, 1993. (Moderate leaders tell their stories about the moderate
political response to the Fundamentalist Takeover and the creation of new
Baptist communities in the light of the Takeover’s final victories.)
Shurden,
Walter B. Not a Silent People:
Controversies that Have Shaped Southern Baptists.
Macon
,
GA
: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1995. (A historical overview of
several disputes that have changed Baptist life, with the story of the
Fundamentalist Takeover added at the end.)
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