
Binkley: A Congregational History
Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN13:
9781621907886
$48.26
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