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Article: Going for the Jugular: A Documentary History of the SBC Holy War.
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Compiled and edited by Walter B. Shurden and Randy Shepley. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996. 281 pp. $35.00.
Aptly titled, this volume represents the first published collection of public documents related to the recent controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention. Most "moderates" who read these papers will sense afresh the frustration, anger, pain, and despair experienced for more than a decade. "Conservatives," on the other hand, should derive little comfort from the book, and the majority will be stung by Shurden's sometimes withering commentary on their inconsistencies and imperious behavior.
As already implied, no minutes of meetings, ...