Contending for the Faith Southern Baptists in New Mexico 1938 1995 1st Edition by Daniel Carnett ISBN 0826328377 ‎ 978-0826328373

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ISBN 10:  0826328377 ‎ 

ISBN 13: 978-0826328373

Author:  Daniel R. Carnett

How did a southern evangelical religion, culturally, racially, and geographically homogeneous, become the largest Protestant denomination by 1960 in a region as diverse as New Mexico? And why did the Baptist Church’s growth in New Mexico level off after the mid 1980s? In examining these two questions, historian Daniel Carnett connects the answers to national trends in the history of Protestant America in the twentieth century.

The Baptists worked hard to provide social and religious services throughout New Mexico in an effort to increase their membership. By the 1960s they managed to create a religious climate where nearly one out of every two Protestants in the state was a Baptist. But after the cultural transformations of the 1960s, the Baptists appeared out of harmony, even in conflict, with a more relativistic world.

Today, Carnett argues, Baptists in New Mexico and around the United States are again trying to adapt to the world around them, but in the process they are being shaped more by the culture than transforming it. Their shift in focus to helping people cope with the difficulties of modern life at the expense of theology alienates as many Baptists as it converts new ones.

Table of contents: 

1. An Overview of Baptist History

2. The Formative Years in New Mexico: 1849 to 1937

3. Harry Stagg and the Rise of New Mexico Baptists: 1938 to 1960

4. Roundabout

5. New Mexico Baptists and Social Issues: 1938 to 1960

6. New Mexico Baptists in Turmoil: 1961 to 1974

7. New Mexico Baptists and Social Change: 1961 to 1974

8. The Chester O’Brien Era: 1975 to 1984

9. The Claude Cone Years: 1985 to 1995

10. Continuity and Change: A Redefined Church for the Post-1960s Era

11. Conclusions

12. Epilogue: 1996 to 2000

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