Between Worlds

Eric C. Smith is associate professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America.

"This is an excellent, timely, and long-overdue biography of a fascinating individual whose life is something of a case study in the history of the American South, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a pivotal era in the life of the Republic." - Bill J. Leonard, author of A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the United States "Well written and carefully researched, this work presents Broadus as one of America's greatest preachers and a major shaper of the Baptist tradition. It is long to remain the definitive study." - Timothy George, author of Galatians: The Christian Standard Commentary "This first critical biography of nineteenth-century theologian and educator John Albert Broadus deserves a wide audience. Gracefully written and based on careful research, it tells of a long life marked by ambition, love, and doubt in an era of slavery and racial violence, political conflict, theological controversy, and war." - Beth Barton Schweiger, author of A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation "More than a much-needed scholarly biography of a towering figure in Baptist and southern religious history, what emerges from this well-written and carefully researched book is an essential account of the crucible of white southern identity after the Civil War." - Robert Elder, Professor of History, Baylor University, author of Calhoun: American Heretic