In the Name of the Father

Carl L. Kell is a professor in the Department of Communication, Western Kentucky University, where he teaches rhetorical history and persuasion in American popular culture. L. Raymond Camp is a professor emeritus of communication at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Roger Williams: God's Apostle of Advocacy and the editor of Persuasion in the Public Forum: Pulpit, Bar, and Council.

“The sharp turn to the right of the Southern Baptist Convention is an arresting cultural and rhetorical phenomenon. Kell and Camp provide an insider/outsider view of the turn, offering a sympathetically incisive critical analysis of the rhetoric that powered it. Scholars and students both of rhetoric and religion will find much in this book to commend its use.”—Helen Sterk, Calvin College “In the Name of the Father is an elegant, though heavily theoretical analysis.... [It] adds meaningfully to the growing literature on the transformation of the SBC.”—Church History