
Doing the Word
Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997
University of Tennessee Press
Published on 30. December 2019
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-1-62190-360-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62190-360-4 (9781621903604)
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T. Laine Scales | Melody Maxwell
Doing the Word
Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997
E-Book
04/2026
1st Edition
University of Tennessee Press
€47.99
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T. Laine Scales | Melody Maxwell
Doing the Word
Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907-1997
E-Book
01/2024
1st Edition
University of Tennessee Press
€43.99
Available for download
Persons
T. Laine Scales is a professor of social work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is editor or author of over thirty articles and chapters and ten books including Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy and "All that Fits a Woman" Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926.
Melody Maxwell is an associate professor of church history at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her works have appeared in multiple journals of religious studies, including Perspective Religious Studies, Baptist History and Heritage, and Tennessee Baptist History. She is the author of The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906-2006.