Anatomy of a Schism: How Clergywomen's Narratives Reinterpret the Fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention
- ISBN-10
- 1621901785
- ISBN-13
- 9781621901785
- Category
- Baptist women
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Author
- Eileen R. Campbell-Reed
Description
From 1979 to 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was mired in conflict, with the Biblicist and autonomist parties fighting openly for control. This highly polarizing struggle ended in a schism that created major changes within the SBC and also resulted in the formation of several new Baptist groups. Discussions of the schism, academic and otherwise, generally ignore the church's clergywomen for the roles they played and the contributions they made to the fracturing of the largest Protestant group in the United States. Only recently are scholars beginning to take seriously these women's contributions and interpretations as active participants in the struggle. Anatomy of a Schism is the first book on the Southern Baptist split to place ordained women's narratives at the center or interpretation. Author Eileen Campbell-Reed brings her unique perspective as a pastoral theologian in conducting qualitative interviews with five Baptist clergy women and allowing their narratives to focus attention on both psychological and theological issues of the split. The narratives of Anna, Martha, Joanna, Rebecca, and Chloe reframe the story of Southern Baptists and reinterpret the rupture and realignment in broad and significant ways. Together they offer an understanding of the schism from three interdisciplinary perspectives-gendered, psychological, and theological-not previously available together. In conversation with their historical events and documents, the women's narratives collaborate to provide specific perspectives with universal implications for understanding changes in Baptist life over the last four decades. The schism's outcome held profound consequences for Baptist individuals and communities. Anatomy of Schism is an illuminating ethnographic and qualitative study sure to be indispensable to scholars of theology, history, and women's studies alike. Book jacket.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-08-13
- 224 pages
- Ebook
- Univ. of Tennessee Press
Similar books
-
Anatomy of a Schism
Anatomy of a Schism
-
The Jewish Pope: Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130
By Mary StrollExamines the struggle between Innocent II and Anacletus II, a member of the Roman Pierleoni family which had converted from Judaism to Christianity.
-
Reform Movements in Methodism and How They Were Treated (1784–1830)
By Paul F. McClearyAnatomy. of. a. Schism. The schism resulting in the Methodist Protestant Church was the first “national” reform movement reachinginto alltwelve annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church that existed at the time.
-
Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life
By Eileen R. Campbell-ReedThe book is closely integrated with the author's Three Minute Ministry Mentor web resource.
-
Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life
By Eileen R. Campbell-ReedPastoral Imagination is closely integrated with the author's Three Minute Ministry Mentor web resource, which introduces the topics in the book through brief video presentations.
-
Pastoral Theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice
By Nancy J. RamsayA third example of research associated with the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Network is pastoral theologian Eileen Campbell‐Reed's (2016) noteworthy study, Anatomy of a Schism, which, while not strictly speaking an ethnography, ...
-
The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism
By Gerald R. McDermottWilliam Sydnor, The Prayer Book through the Ages, rev. ed. (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1997), 20–22. 40. Sydnor, Prayer Book through the Ages, 23. 41. Some might object that when Anglicans point to the deaths of Nadab, Abihu, ...
-
Pastoral Bearings: Lived Religion and Pastoral Theology
By Mary Clark Moschella, Jane F. Maynard, Leonard HummelTo date, efforts to interpret the motivations, politics, and dynamics of the SBC schism appear mainly in partisan ecclesial ... the goal of the study is to assemble an interpretive model and elucidate an anatomy of the schism in the SBC ...
-
Integrating Work in Theological Education
By Kathleen A. Cahalan, Gordon S. Mikoski, Edward FoleyThis book offers a rich (and integrated!) discussion of how to change these patterns.
-
Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought
By Harris L. CoulterThe four volumes of DIVIDED LEGACY, written over a period of thirty years, are a new interpretation of the history of Western medicine, from its origins in the Hippocratic writings of the fifth century B.C. to the most recent times.