TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION: THE MORAL EXAMPLE OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST THOUGHT AND EDUCATION, 1890-1920. |
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Heffron, John M.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Religion and American Culture
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8(2)p.179-204
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Social/Public Policy and Administration
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There was a Northern Protestant campaign in the 1860 s and 1870 s to redeem the South through education and industrialization. By 1900, Northern reformers embraced some SouthernBaptist values, especially social solidarity and personal responsibility. Northern Protestant evangelicals, particularly Baptists, were concerned with secularization, urbanization, andcultural pluralism and concluded much could be learned from Southern Baptists. Working through the influential General Education Board, its subsidiary the Southern Educational Board, theAmerican Baptist Home Mission Society, and other agencies, John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., worked beginning in 1902 to reinforce traditional Protestant values amongAfrican Americans and assist Southern Baptists in promoting a Christian message of piety and personal responsibility without its revolutionary social implications. This effort may beconsidered progressive in the sense that it sought to teach both capital and labor that they had mutual responsibilities and offered a way for Christians to deal with the challenges presentedby science and the scientific method.
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