Elizabeth H. Flowers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835340
- eISBN:
- 9781469601823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869987_flowers.6
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter highlights several events from 1973 to 1978, concluding with the 1978 Consultation on Women in Church-Related Vocations. These events demonstrated the attempts of Southern Baptists to ...
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This chapter highlights several events from 1973 to 1978, concluding with the 1978 Consultation on Women in Church-Related Vocations. These events demonstrated the attempts of Southern Baptists to cultivate evangelical feminism within Southern Baptist life. Together with the Sappington resolution, such events reveal how tensions between evangelical feminism and traditional womanhood triggered unease among denominationalists as well as conservatives.Less
This chapter highlights several events from 1973 to 1978, concluding with the 1978 Consultation on Women in Church-Related Vocations. These events demonstrated the attempts of Southern Baptists to cultivate evangelical feminism within Southern Baptist life. Together with the Sappington resolution, such events reveal how tensions between evangelical feminism and traditional womanhood triggered unease among denominationalists as well as conservatives.
