Alan Scot Willis

By Alan Scot Willis
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In All According to God's Plan , Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the Convention.He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptists Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South.

Alan Scot Willis is assistant professor of history at Northern Michigan University.He lives in Marquette, Michigan.

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"The strength of Willis's book is in placing the Southern Baptist dilemma over race relations in an international context."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"Documents progressive voices that have not received attention in the past."--American Historical Review

"Willis has added a valuable . . . study of an important group of Southern Baptists who led the body during a critical era of its history."--Ohio Valley History
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"Raises a number of important issues, and Willis offers convincing answers to difficult questions. . . . An important book about a topic that deserves more attention."--North Carolina Historical Review
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"Willis presents an honest, balanced, and forthright account of how the Southern Baptist hierarchy tried to persuade their congregations and pastors of the rightness and biblical correctness of an integrated society. . . . Well-organized, readable, informative, and enlightening."--Baptist History and Heritage

Alan Willis, Assistant Professor awillis@nmu.edu

By Alan Scot Willis
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, Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the Convention.He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptists Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South.

Alan Scot Willis is assistant professor of history at Northern Michigan University.He lives in Marquette, Michigan.

See other books in the series Religion in the South.

Reviews:

"Documents progressive voices that have not received attention in the past."--American Historical Review

"Willis has added a valuable . . . study of an important group of Southern Baptists who led the body during a critical era of its history."--Ohio Valley History
...
"Raises a number of important issues, and Willis offers convincing answers to difficult questions. . . . An important book about a topic that deserves more attention."--North Carolina Historical Review
...
"Willis presents an honest, balanced, and forthright account of how the Southern Baptist hierarchy tried to persuade their congregations and pastors of the rightness and biblical correctness of an integrated society. . . . Well-organized, readable, informative, and enlightening."--Baptist History and Heritage