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Doing the Word: Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997

by Scales Maxwell

  • Hardback
  • 277 pages
  • Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
  • 16.1 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

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For church historians and students of women's studies

Details the rise and fall of a unique training centre

Understand the challenges women faced in the ministry

An insightful look at the history of the Carver School and the evolution of women's leadership in the church.

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In the pantheon of publications related to women's educational history, there is little research concerning women's education in the context of the Baptist church. In Doing the Word: Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997, T. Laine Scales and Melody Maxwell provide a complete history of this unique institution. By exploring the dynamic evolution of women's education through the lens of the women's training program for missions and social work at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the authors show how the institution both expanded women's education and leadership and also came into tension with changes in the Southern Baptist Convention, ultimately resulting in its closing in 1997. A touchstone for women's studies and church history alike, Doing the Word reopens a lost chapter in the evolution of women's leadership during the twentieth century--a tumultuous period in which the Carver School, under significant pressure to reverse course, sought to expand the roles of women in leading the church.
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The Woman I amDoing the Word: Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997

  • Title

    Doing the Word: Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997

  • Author

    Scales Maxwell

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Univ Tennessee Press

  • Published

    January 2020

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    277

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781621903604

  • ISBN-10

    1621903605

  • Eden Code

    4993231