Bodies of Belief
Janet Moore Lindman
The American Baptist church originated in British North America as "little tabernacles in the wilderness," isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by the early nineteenth century. The common view of this transition casts these evangelicals as radicals who were on society's fringe during the colonial period, only to become conservative by the nineteenth century after they had achieved social acceptance. In Bodies of Belief, Janet Moore Lindman challenges this accepted, if oversimplified, characterization of early American Baptists by arguing that they struggled with issues of equity and power within the church during the colonial period, and ... Read more
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Church History
"Lindman's book adds much to our understanding of a lesser-known but significant portion of the early American religious landscape. Bodies of Belief enriches our view of the growth of the Baptist faith, ... Read more