Baptists in America.(Book review)

Church History | September 1, 2006| | Copyright

Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 317 pp. $40.00 cloth.

Baptists in America is a comprehensive historical and sociological account of America's largest Protestant family. Rather than the traditional chronological study, Leonard has pictured ten different areas of Baptist life: Baptist Beginnings; Baptists in the Twentieth Century; Baptist Beliefs and Practices; Baptist Groups; Bible, Ordinances, and Polity; Baptists and Religious Liberty; Ethnicity and Race; Women; and Baptists in American Culture. Within each of ...

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