“From Ordaining Women to Combating White Supremacy: Oppositional Shifts in Social Attitudes between the Southern Baptist Convention and the Alliance of Baptists”

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q2 HISTORY RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2022-11-11 DOI:10.1017/rac.2022.7
A. Gardner, Gerardo Martí
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ABSTRACT From its founding in 1987, the Alliance of Baptists’ stance on women in ministry served as the nexus point from which the small denominational body departed from its denominational forebears in the Southern Baptist Convention. As the Alliance adopted more and more progressive theological and social ideas, Southern Baptists adopted more and more conservative counterpoints, at times in response to each other. In 2021, the divergence of these two bodies came to the fore. As members of the Alliance of Baptists adopted a new covenant statement committing the denomination to “act to dismantle systems of white supremacy, patriarchy, and abusive power,” the Southern Baptists had walked away from working through their pro-slavery past and were agitating against critical race theory. Theological moves that began in a debate over women's ordination morphed into larger shifts that redefined what it meant to be a Baptist in the modern United States. How both denominational bodies came to embrace different systems of authority and governance in the late 1980s set both groups on divergent paths, leading to strikingly antithetical positions not only on issues of gender but also on issues surrounding race. The contrast further affirms that questions of gender and religious authority and questions of racism and white supremacy within denominational contexts are not isolated, separate questions but rather are deeply intertwined and related to one another. Overall, this SBC–Alliance history demonstrates how denominational bodies actively consider proximate organizations as they develop their own policies, processes, and public proclamations.
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“从奴役妇女到对抗白人至上:南方浸礼会和浸礼会联盟之间社会态度的对立转变”
摘要自1987年成立以来,浸信会联盟对牧师中妇女的立场一直是这个小教派团体在南方浸信会大会中与其教派祖先分离的纽带。随着联盟采用越来越进步的神学和社会思想,南方浸礼会教徒采用了越来越保守的对位法,有时相互回应。2021年,这两个机构的分歧凸显出来。当浸信会联盟成员通过一项新的盟约声明,承诺该教派“采取行动废除白人至上、父权制和滥用权力的制度”时,南方浸信会放弃了支持奴隶制的过去,并煽动反对批判性种族理论。始于一场关于女性圣职的辩论的神学运动演变成了更大的转变,重新定义了现代美国浸礼会的意义。20世纪80年代末,这两个教派机构是如何接受不同的权力和治理体系的,这使两个团体走上了不同的道路,不仅在性别问题上,而且在种族问题上,导致了惊人的对立立场。这种对比进一步证实,性别和宗教权威问题以及教派背景下的种族主义和白人至上主义问题并不是孤立的、独立的问题,而是相互交织、相互关联的问题。总的来说,SBC-联盟的历史表明,教派机构在制定自己的政策、流程和公告时,是如何积极考虑邻近组织的。
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期刊介绍: Religion and American Culture is devoted to promoting the ongoing scholarly discussion of the nature, terms, and dynamics of religion in America. Embracing a diversity of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives, this semiannual publication explores the interplay between religion and other spheres of American culture. Although concentrated on specific topics, articles illuminate larger patterns, implications, or contexts of American life. Edited by Philip Goff, Stephen Stein, and Peter Thuesen.
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