History of Texas Baptists


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A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook


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Annotation A companion volumn to Harry Leon McBeth's texas baptists. A definitive collection of primary sources in Texas Baptist history. A indispensable source of information for anything relating to Baptists in Texas.







A Texas Baptist Power Struggle


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Annotation Tells how Samuel Augustus Hayden, almost destroyed the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Hayden caused such unrest among Texas Baptists, that he was expelled from the state body. He created the Baptist Missionary Association (BMA), which continued to fight perceived oppression by the BGCT.




A History of Texas Baptists


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Texas Baptists


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Author's preface / Harry Leon McBeth -- Foreword / William M. Pinson, Jr. -- Editorial introduction / Jerry F. Dawson -- List of abbreviations -- Changing flags over Texas -- Baptist beginnings in Texas, 1820-1840 -- Emerging Baptist structures, 1840-1848 -- Progress amidst problems, 1848-1868 -- Divided we stand, 1868-1886 -- Search for unity, 1886-1900 -- Into a new century, 1900-1914 -- Good times and bad, 1914-1929 -- Depression and deliverance, 1929-1945 -- Ready to go forward, 1945-1953 -- New directions, 1953-1960 -- Onward and (sometimes) upward, 1960-1973 -- Focus on Texas, 1974-1982 -- Continuity amidst change, 1982-1998 -- Change amidst continuity, 1982-1998 -- Endnotes -- Bibliographic essay -- A statistical epilogue: -- Historical tables of Texas General bodies -- Texas Baptist statistical summary by associations -- Trends in the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1960 to 1997.










Texas Baptists


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