Baptists in America

Bill J. Leonard

Paper, 336 pages, 15 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12703-5
$27.00 / £16.00

June, 2005
Cloth, 336 pages, 15 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12702-8
$48.50 / £28.50

"Leonard carefully chronicles the clashes...in an instructive and compelling way." — Library Journal

"Leonard's superb historical and cultural study of this diverse denomination offers an understanding of this sometimes perplexing religious group." — Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., ForeWord Magazine

"Leonard has produced an excellent volume on Baptists in America... Recommended," — Choice

"Leonard's book demonstrates an equanimity badly lacking in many of the Baptist debates." — Thomas S. Kidd, Journal of Religion

"This book covers everything important about the Baptists of America... With respect, balance, and an obvious, genuine love." — John Crowley, Journal of Southern HistoryValdosta State University

"This book provides an avenue for consideration of challenges that face Baptists in the dawn of this century." — Omer Hancock, Review and Expositor

"[An] excellent and informative volume." — Paul Harvey, H-Amstdy

"An excellent overview of Baptist life in America." — Michael E. Williams, Baptist History and Heritage

"A fascinating account of those 'deep water' Christians called Baptists and the American context that has so decisively shaped their piety and practice for more than three centuries. This is Bill Leonard at his best, writing with verve, insight, and sympathy. A book to be read and referred to again and again." — Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School of Stamford University and executive

editor of Christianity Today

"Bill J. Leonard's Baptists in America is amazingly comprehensive, engagingly relevant, and, typical of Leonard's work, artistically written. Accessible to the historically curious layperson, the book will also effectively serve as a college and seminary text. His predominantly topical approach enriches the study of American Baptist history, and, I believe, helps to promise that his book will have long life and lots of use." — Walter B. Shurden, professor of Christianity and executive director, The Center for Baptist Studies, Mercer University

Related Subjects

• American History
• Christianity
• Reference
• Religion

Series

• Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series

About the Author

Bill J. Leonard is dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University Divinity School. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including God's Last and Only Hope: The Fragmentation of the Southern Baptist Convention, Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism, and Baptist Ways: A History. His work is often cited in the media, and he appears frequently on NPR and other radio and television stations. In 2007, he was awarded the W. O. Carver Distinguished Service Award from the Baptist History and Heritage Society.

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