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- Title
From Colporteurs to Cooperative Program: A Century of Southern Baptist Stewardship and the Rise of the Southern Baptist Convention.
- Authors
Rowe, David L.
- Abstract
The article presents a historical background on southern Baptists stewardship. Throughout the twentieth-century, claimed Bill J. Leonard, Southern Baptists devoted more attention to Christian stewardship than perhaps to any other issue except evangelism and missions. Stewardship issues in the mid-nineteenth century were catalysts that, combined with others, helped Southern Baptists define their distinctive qualities as a denomination. Southern Baptists cited stewardship as the principal reason far their secession from the national denomination.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN stewardship; CHRISTIAN life; PRACTICAL theology; SECESSION; BAPTIST catechisms
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2006, Vol 41, Issue 2, p93
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article