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The Quality of Mercy challenges the stereotypical suggestion that Southern Baptists lacked social concern demonstrating that they addressed contemporary social problems from within a distinctly southern cultural context - emphasizing family and the church but valuing community as well. Harper shows that missions were the key to enlisting support for such expanded social ministries. Baptist leaders synthesized evangelical concern with social compassion, and they convinced church members not only that the Bible sanctioned social ministries but also that such endeavors were worthy of support. The effect was twofold: Baptists built institutions to give relief to those in need, and they also used these institutions to propagate the Gospel and teach Baptist doctrine.

Church work --- Christian sociology --- Church and social problems --- Baptists --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Baptist Church --- Anabaptists --- Christianity and social problems --- Social problems and Christianity --- Social problems and the church --- Social problems --- Christian social theory --- Social theory, Christian --- Sociology, Christian --- Sociology --- Church work with adults --- Institutional church --- Ministry --- Theology, Practical --- Southern Baptist Convention --- History --- SBC

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This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points the way for the next decade of scholarly effort. Contents Roman Catholics by Amy Koehlinger Congregationalists by Margaret Bendroth Presbyterians by Sean Michael Lucas American Baptists by Keith Harper Methodists by Jennifer L.

Sects --- History. --- Christianity --- United States --- Church history.