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Topics in Baptist Studies

Baptists and American Politics

Baptists and Civil Rights

Bullock, Karen. "Baptists and women and the turn toward gender inclusion." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Carter, Terry. "Baptists and racism and the turn toward segregation." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Eighmy, John L. Churches in cultural captivity: a history of the social attitudes of Southern Baptists.
Fitts, Leroy. History of black Baptists.
Hawkins, Merrill M. Baptists and the Civil Rights Movement.
Leonard, Bill J. Baptist ways: a history.
Leonard, Bill J. Baptists in America.
Leonard, Bill J. Challenge of being Baptist: owning a scandalous past and an uncertain future.
Martin, Sandy D. "Baptists and race and the turn from slavery to greater institutionalization among African-American Baptists." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Putnam, Mary Burnham. Baptists and slavery, 1840-1845.
Shurden, Walter B. Not a silent people: controversies that have shaped Southern Baptists.
Stricklin, David. Genealogy of dissent: Southern Baptist protest in the twentieth century.
Tillman, William M. "Baptists and the turn toward racial inclusion." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Willis, Alan Scot. All according to God’s plan: Southern Baptist missions and race, 1945 – 1970.

Baptists and the Calvinist Resurgence

Cooke, Vincent M. “New Calvinist epistemology.” Theological Studies 47 no 2, 1986.
Hansen, Collin. Young, restless and Reformed: a journalist’s journey with the New Calvinists.
Hoitenga, Dewey J. Faith and reason from Plato to Plantinga: an introduction to Reformed epistemology.
McBeth, Leon. Baptist heritage: four centuries of Baptist witness.
Piper, John. Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God’s triumphant grace in the lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin.
Piper, John. Let the nations be glad! The supremacy of God in missions.
Plantinga, Alvin. God, freedom, and evil.
Selph, Robert B. Southern Baptists and the doctrine of election.

Conservative Resurgence/Fundamentalist Takeover

Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement

Boney, William Jerry. Baptists and ecumenism.
Brackney, William H."Baptist associations and the turn toward denominational cooperation: 1640s-1707." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Dockery, David S. Southern Baptists, evangelicals, and the future of denominationalism.
Hinson, E. Glenn. “Baptist World Alliance: its identity and ecumenical involvement.” Ecumenical Review 46 no 4, 1994.
Igleheart, Glenn A. “Ecumenical concerns among Southern Baptists.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 17 no 2, 1980.
Jonas, Glenn. "Baptists and global unity and the turn toward the Baptist World Alliance." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Kik, J. Marcellus. Ecumenism and the evangelical.
Leonard, Bill J. Baptist ways: a history.
Schulz, Otmar. “Baptists and the ecumenical movement.” Review and Expositor 66 no 3, 1969.
Shurden, Walter B. Not a silent people: controversies that have shaped Southern Baptists.
Weaver, C. Douglas. "Baptists and denominational identity and the turn toward creedalism." Turning points in Baptist History. Ed. Michael E. Williams.
Baker, Robert A. Pulling together.

Baptists of Africa

Anderson, Gerald H. Biographical dictionary of Christian missions.
Booth, Newell S. Cross over Africa.
Duke, William H. Seeds of hope : Liberia and Virginia Baptists, an anthology.
Falk, Peter. Growth of the church in Africa.
Froise, Marjorie. World Christianity : South Central Africa : a factual portrait of the Christian church.
Gaines, Jane Ellen. Every day with Jesus : a missionary's daily life in West Africa as seen in the memoirs and letters of Jane Ellen Gaines, missionary to Nigeria from 1967 to 1993 .
Johnson, Robert E. Global introduction to Baptist churches.
Johnstone, Patrick. Operation World.
Koshorke, Klaus. History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: a documentary sourcebook.
Kretzschmar, Louise. “Baptist theological education in Africa, particularly in South Africa.” Baptist History and Heritage 36 no 1-2, 2001.
Kwast, Lloyd Emerson. Discipling of West Cameroon ; a study of Baptist growth.
Leonard, Bill J. Baptist ways: a history.
Lotz, Denton. “Who and where in the world are the Baptists?” Baptist History and Heritage 40 no 1, 2005.
Martin, Sandy D. Black Baptists and African missions: the origins of a movement, 1880-1915.
Moore, John Allen.Baptist mission portraits.
Moreau, A. Scott. Evangelical dictionary of world missions.
Mueller, J. Theodore. Great missionaries to Africa.
O'Brien, William R. Challenges confronting Baptist missions.
Roberts, W. Dayton. Africa : a season for hope.
Saunders, Davis L. “Baptists in East Africa: the birth of two conventions.” Baptist Heritage and History 6 no 4, 1971.
Siewert, John A. Mission Handbook: U.S. and Canadian Christian ministries overseas—2001-2003.
Stepp, Eddie. “The love of liberty brought us here: Baptist beginnings in Liberia.” Baptist History and Heritage 42 no 1, 2007.
Weeks, Nan F. Builders of a new Africa.
Whirley, Carlton F. Baptists of Nigeria: a story to tell.
Willis, Alan Scot. All according to God’s plan: Southern Baptist missions and race, 1945 – 1970.
Wardin, Albert W. Baptists around the world: a comprehensive handbook.

Baptists of Asia

Allen, Catherine B. New Lottie Moon story.
Anderson, Gerald H. Biographical dictionary of Christian missions.
Bond, Jean Faulkner. Blanche Groves of China: indomitable lady.
Camps, Arnulf. Studies in Asian mission history, 1956-1998.
Cohen, Paul A. China and Christianity : the missionary movement and the growth of Chinese antiforeignism, 1860-1870.
Crawley, J. Winston. Into a new world.
Dunne, George H. Generation of giants; the story of the Jesuits in China in the last decades of the Ming dynasty.
Hines, Gene. Japan: the challenge and the promise.
Howell, Brian M. Christianity in the local context: Southern Baptists in the Philippines.
Hsu, Princeton. History of Chinese Baptist churches.
Huh, Kin. Historical analysis of the Korea Baptist Convention in the light of Baptist principles.
Johnson, Robert E. Global introduction to Baptist churches.
Johnstone, Patrick. Operation World.
Koshorke, Klaus. History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: a documentary sourcebook.
Kung, Peter. “Story of Asian Southern Baptists.” Baptist History and Heritage 18 no 3, 1983.
Leonard, Bill J. Baptist ways: a history.
Lindsell, Harold.Japan with love: a missionary remembers.
Lotz, Denton. “Who and where in the world are the Baptists?” Baptist History and Heritage 40 no 1, 2005.
Margrett, Anne Sowell. Under the southern cross.
Moore, John Allen.Baptist mission portraits.
Moreau, A. Scott. Evangelical dictionary of world missions.
O'Brien, William R. Challenges confronting Baptist missions.
Parker, Calvin F. Southern Baptist missions in Japan: 1889-1989.
Phan, Peter C. Christianities in Asia.
Randall, Herbert Morey. American Baptist missions among primitive peoples in Southeast Asia.
Rankin, Jerry. Journey of faith and sacrifice: retracing the steps of Lottie Moon.
Rhoads, Paul Allen. Korean promise.
Ricci, Matteo. China in the sixteenth century: the journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610
Siewert, John A. Mission Handbook: U.S. and Canadian Christian ministries overseas—2001-2003.
Singh, Manpreet. “Soul-hunters of Central Asia: the most Baptist state in the world—Nagaland—is vying to become a powerhouse for cross-cultural missions.” Christianity Today 50 no 2, 2006.
Tegenfeldt, Herman G. Century of growth: the Kachin Baptist Church of Burma.
Towery, Britt E. Churches of China : taking root downward, bearing fruit upward .
White, Garnet Lee. Southern Baptist missions in China, 1945-1951.
Willocks, R. Max. Christian missions in Korea: with special reference to the work of Southern Baptists.
Worten, Marge. India : where cross the crowded ways.
Wardin, Albert W. Baptists around the world: a comprehensive handbook.

Baptists of South America

Anderson, Gerald H. Biographical dictionary of Christian missions.
Anderson, Justice C. “Southern Baptist involvement in Spanish-speaking South America.” Baptist History and Heritage 3, 1968.
Edmonds, Ennis. Caribbean religious history: an introduction.
Hart, Joseph L. Gospel triumphs in Argentina and Chile.
Johnson, Robert E. Global introduction to Baptist churches.
Johnstone, Patrick. Operation World.
Koshorke, Klaus. History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: a documentary sourcebook.
Leonard, Bill J. Baptist ways: a history.
Lotz, Denton. “Who and where in the world are the Baptists?” Baptist History and Heritage 40 no 1, 2005.
Martin, David. Tongues on fire: the explosion of Protestantism in Latin America.
Moore, John Allen.Baptist mission portraits.
Moreau, A. Scott. Evangelical dictionary of world missions.
O'Brien, William R. Challenges confronting Baptist missions.
Patterson, Frank W. Century of Baptist work in Mexico.
Pitts, William L. “Baptist beginnings in Brazil.” Baptist History and Heritage 17 no 4, 1982.
Reid, Orvil W. Challenge of Mexico to missions.
Siewert, John A. Mission Handbook: U.S. and Canadian Christian ministries overseas—2001-2003.
Stoll, David. Is Latin America turning Protestant? The politics of Evangelical growth.
Wise, Mary Agnes. Southern Baptists in Chile.
Wardin, Albert W. Baptists around the world: a comprehensive handbook.

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