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 Hilton
Part Two: The Kingdom of God and Eschatological Interpretations
Introductory Comments
Jeanette Mathews
4. Baptist Legacies in Latin America: Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Changing Views of God's Kingdom across Borders
Ivan Dias da Silva
5. Contingency, Joy, and the Kingdom of God: Theological Reflections on the Relationship between Divine and Human Joy
Aidan Luke
6. Millennial Eden?: Baptist Postmillennialism and the Shaping of the Australian Dream
Nicole Starling
Part Three: The Kingdom of God and Social Interpretations
Introductory Comments
Terry G. Carter
7. The Kingdom of God: A Dangerously Powerful Challenge to Oppression
Stephanie Peek
8. Slavery, Justice, and the Kingdom of God: Mapping Baptist Hermeneutics in the Atlantic World
Ryan J. Butler
9. "Scotching Some Myths": Apartheid, Baptist Distinctives, and the Search for Social Concern
Myra Ann Houser
10. "Wonderfully Ecumenical"?: The SBC Christian Life Commission, the Mainline, and 1960s Social Concern
Skylar Ray
Part Four: The Kingdom of God and Providential Interpretations
Introductory Comments
Roger Ward
11. Kingdom-Shaped Apologetics: Making Apologetics Accessible to All
Seidel Abel Boanerges
12. Baptist Perspectives on Freedom and the Kingdom of God
Joshua T. Searle
Afterword
Seeking the Kingdom of God: With Mind and Heart
Karen Smith
About the Contributors
About the Editors

Baptists and the Kingdom of God

Global Perspectives