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1 online resource (xi, 167 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-163) and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Summary |
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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 19th century.
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Southern Baptist Convention. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Southern Baptist Convention. |
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Southern Baptist Convention. |
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Church work -- Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 19th century.
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Church work -- Southern Baptist Convention. |
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Church work -- Southern Baptist Convention -- History -- 20th century.
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Christian sociology -- Baptists -- History -- 19th century.
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Christian sociology -- Baptists. |
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Christian sociology -- Baptists -- History -- 20th century.
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Church and social problems -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Church and social problems. |
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United States. |
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Church and social problems -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Baptists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Baptists. |
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Baptists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Harper, Keith, 1957- Quality of mercy. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996 0817308148 (DLC) 95037869 (OCoLC)33045683 |
ISBN |
0585255709 (electronic book) |
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9780585255705 (electronic book) |
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0817308148 (alkaline paper) |
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9780817308148 (alkaline paper) |