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Baptists in America.(Book review)
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001509
Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 316 pp. $26.00 paper.
In this insightful book, Bill Leonard illuminates the diversity, complexity, and divisiveness of Baptist life in the United States. Most impressively, Baptists in America builds on Leonard's earlier contributions--especially Baptist Ways (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson, 2003), his comprehensive survey of Baptist history, Dictionary of Baptists in America (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1994), which he edited, and God's Last and Only Hope (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990), his ...
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