Binkley: A Congregational History

Univ Tennessee Press
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This book examines how a Southern Baptist congregation emerged as a bastion of liberal Christianity in late twentieth-century Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Andrew B. Gardner narrates a detail-rich history, from the late 1950s to the 2010s, of the Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church through the lens of its social witness mission. While it is a concrete congregational history of a single church community-with profiles of prominent members like the University of North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith and influential clergy like Robert Seymour and Linda Jordan-Gardner also uses the story to examine how congregations more generally change and evolve. He contends that recurring conflicts on various issues in the life of a congregation-in Binkley's case, from building projects to civil rights, women's ordination, and LGBTQ inclusion-are the primary drivers of its development--


  • | Author: Andrew Gardner
  • | Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
  • | Publication Date: May 08, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 232 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1621907880
  • | ISBN-13: 9781621907886
Author:
Andrew Gardner
Publisher:
Univ Tennessee Press
Publication Date:
May 08, 2023
Number of pages:
232 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1621907880
ISBN-13:
9781621907886