Baptists and the Kingdom of God

T. Laine Scales is Professor of Social Work and advisor for part-time instructors at Baylor University.João B. Chaves is Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in the Américas at Baylor University. He is also the author of Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora.

• Preface Introduction: Baptists and the Kingdom of God David Bebbington Part One: The Kingdom of God and Ecclesiastical Interpretations Introductory Comments Paul S. Fiddes 1. Collective Virtue and Baptist Ecclesiology Meghan Byerly 2. What Does Leadership Look Like in the Kingdom of God?: "Serviceable Leadership" in Rauschenbusch's The Social Principles of Jesus (1916) Michael Whiting 3. "For the Extension of Christ's Kingdom": Australian Baptist Missionary Women in East Bengal, 1901 to 1945 Rebecca Anne HiltonPart Two: The Kingdom of God and Eschatological InterpretationsIntroductory CommentsJeanette Mathews 4. Baptist Legacies in Latin America: Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Changing Views of God's Kingdom across BordersIvan Dias da Silva 5. Contingency, Joy, and the Kingdom of God: Theological Reflections on the Relationship between Divine and Human JoyAidan Luke 6. Millennial Eden?: Baptist Postmillennialism and the Shaping of the Australian DreamNicole StarlingPart Three: The Kingdom of God and Social InterpretationsIntroductory CommentsTerry G. Carter 7. The Kingdom of God: A Dangerously Powerful Challenge to OppressionStephanie Peek 8. Slavery, Justice, and the Kingdom of God: Mapping Baptist Hermeneutics in the Atlantic WorldRyan J. Butler 9. "Scotching Some Myths": Apartheid, Baptist Distinctives, and the Search for Social ConcernMyra Ann Houser 10. "Wonderfully Ecumenical"?: The SBC Christian Life Commission, the Mainline, and 1960s Social ConcernSkylar RayPart Four: The Kingdom of God and Providential InterpretationsIntroductory CommentsRoger Ward 11. Kingdom-Shaped Apologetics: Making Apologetics Accessible to AllSeidel Abel Boanerges 12. Baptist Perspectives on Freedom and the Kingdom of GodJoshua T. SearleAfterwordSeeking the Kingdom of God: With Mind and HeartKaren SmithAbout the ContributorsAbout the Editors