Available April 2005

Religious Studies

280 pages, 6 x 9

978-0-86554-933-3

$30.00s, Paper

Index, bibliography

MUP/P289

Walter B. Shurden

Shurden on Baptists: Assessments, Appreciations, Apologies contains articles, essays, and speeches given by Walter Shurden on Baptists.

Walter Shurden is a longtime champion of the role of freedom in the Baptist tradition. Recognizing that freedom alone is not the whole story, Shurden also speaks to and from other cardinal Baptist convictions. Some of the materials in this volume appear for the first time and consist of speeches and addresses that Shurden has made at crucial points in recent Baptist life in America in the latter part of the twentieth century. Especially concerned with the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and the resulting lack of emphasis on historic Baptist principles, Shurden addresses directly and indirectly the SBC controversy in several of the chapters of this book. Moreover, Shurden emphasizes what makes Baptists distinctive in American religious life.

Walter B. Shurden is currently professor of Christianity in the Roberts Department of Christianity and executive director of the Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. A former professor of Church History at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he also served as dean of the School of Theology. He has also taught at Carson-Newman College and at McMaster Divinity School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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