List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Goin' to Church in Dixie

Uncertain Times: Trouble in Zion

Preaching the Word: The Nature of Persuasion in the Southern Baptist Holy War

All Scripture Is Given by Inspiration of God: An Apologia for Inerrancy

Tongues of Fire: The Inerrancy Rhetoric of Southern Baptist Presidents

Objectionable Believers, Roger Williams, and the Southern Baptist Oligarchy

By Scripture and Argument: An Apologia for the Ordination of Women

The Rhetorics of Silence and Abomination: The Troublesome Issue of Homosexuality

The New Southern Baptists and a Purified South

Appendix 1. A Baptist and His Bible, II Timothy 3:14--4:13

Appendix 2. A Conservative Southern Baptist Affirmation

Notes

A Bibliographical Essay on the Rhetorics of Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, and Exclusion in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1980--1994

Index