God's Last and Only Hope
Book description
Analyzes the recent controversy between moderate and fundamentalist Baptists from an historical perspective
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A liberal Southern Baptist, Leonard describes the fundamentalist takeover of the largest Protestant denomination. The take over accompanied the South’s transformation into a Republican stronghold and made the Christian right a serious force in American politics. Leonard is one of the best-known historians of the Convention and of contemporary religion in the South.
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