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Review: The Making of Battle Royal: The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 1870–1920

Jim Tue, 12/04/18 8:31 pm
Bible, Theology & Philosophy
Jeff Straub
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Church History

“Battle Royal shows, in sum, that the pyrotechnics set off by Harry Emerson Fosdick in the 1920s were prepared decades before. They took shape in the place where ministry—sound or unsound—is often incubated: the seminary. Though this sturdy text is academic in tone and format, I was gripped in my own analysis of the text by how urgently missiological Straub’s academic scholarship is. Because of this modern-day relevance, I now list three principles I identified in Battle Royal that speak not only to the settled past, but the unsettled present.”

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Jim
Tue, 12/04/18 11:24 am

Would make a thoughtful Christmas gift!

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Josh S
Thu, 12/06/18 3:32 pm

Have to Read It

One in Hope and Doctrine by Bauder/Delney was the book that helped me come around to liking being a fundamentalist. They sited The Making of a Battle Royal (then an unpublished dissertation) quite a bit. I look forward to reading this.

Josh Stilwell, associate pastor, Alathea Baptist Church, Des Moines, Iowa.

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