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Baptists in North America; an historical perspective.


9781405118651

Baptists in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ; an historical perspective.

Brackney, William H.

Blackwell Publishing

2006

296 pages

$84.95

Hardcover

Religious life in America

BX6235

Brackney (religion and Baptist studies, Baylor U., Texas) combines a thematic, analytical history with a chronological essay of the Protestant denomination Noun 1. Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations
Protestant Church, Protestant - the Protestant churches and denominations collectively
 in the US and Canada. His topics include coming to America, the institutionalization Institutionalization

The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world.
 of a tradition, the pinnacle of Baptist denominationalism de·nom·i·na·tion·al·ism  
n.
1. The tendency to separate into religious denominations.

2. Advocacy of separation into religious denominations.

3. Strict adherence to a denomination; sectarianism.
, Baptists and the missionary impulse, the legacy of an evangelical tradition, and facing modernity.

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