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- Title
The Significance of Local Baptist Church History: The 200th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Huntsville, Alabama.
- Authors
Gourley, Bruce
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of the First Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. It describes the value of researching local church history within the broader study of Baptist history, the religious history of racial relations in Alabama and its effect on the First Baptist Church, and the influence of Calvinism on the First Baptist's theology, ecclesiology, and order of worship. Other subjects under discussion include the role of the church during the U.S. Civil War, the industrialization of the South and its effect on the socio-economic demographics of the church, and the rise of the Southern women's movement.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ALABAMA; HISTORY of American Baptists; CALVINISM; BAPTISTS -- Government; BAPTIST women; ALABAMA state history; RELIGION; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 3, p32
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article