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A Journey of Faith and Community - The Story of the First Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia (Hardcover)
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A Journey of Faith and Community - The Story of the First Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia (Hardcover)
Series: James N. Griffith Endowed Series in Baptist Studies
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Established amid adversity in 1817, the First Baptist Church of
Augusta, Georgia, ranks among the most important congregations in
Southern history for having birthed the Southern Baptist Convention
in 1845. A Journey of Faith and Community offers new insight into
the surprising role First Baptist Church of Augusta played in the
formation of the South's now-largest denomination. Yet in a manner
unusual for Baptist churches of the Deep South and in part
reflective of the ethos of Augusta, the First Baptist congregation
maintained significant relationships with Northern (American)
Baptists into the twentieth century. Exemplifying the progressively
conservative nature and rapid growth of early to mid-twentieth
century urban Southern Baptist life, the church in the decades
following dissented from a theologically-calcifying SBC by
ordaining women to ministry, welcoming holistic ministry and
missions, and transitioning into primarily a Cooperative Baptist
Fellowship congregation. A Journey of Faith and Community is the
story of how an outcast and disadvantaged people of faith grew into
a large and influential Southern congregation while striving to
remain true, amid changing cultural currents, to a Christ-centric
heritage of freedom of conscience, religious liberty for all, and
church state separation. At the same time this volume is a study of
the close relationship between church and city, the historical
intertwining of religion and the South, and congregational
responses to modern demographics and religious challenges in
America. From beginning to end, the story of the First Baptist
Church of Augusta, Georgia, is a drama filled with surprises, plot
twists, and concurrent narratives local, regional, and national.
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