Preface Introduction: Baptists and the Kingdom of God David Bebbington Part One: The Kingdom of God and Ecclesiastical Interpretations Introductory Comments Paul S. Fiddes 1. Collective Virtue and Baptist Ecclesiology Meghan Byerly 2. What Does Leadership Look Like in the Kingdom of God?: "Serviceable Leadership" in Rauschenbusch?s The Social Principles of Jesus (1916) Michael Whiting 3. "For the Extension of Christ?s Kingdom": Australian Baptist Missionary Women in East Bengal, 1901 to 1945 Rebecca Anne Hilton Part Two: The Kingdom of God and Eschatological Interpretations Introductory Comments Jeanette Mathews 4. Baptist Legacies in Latin America: Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Changing Views of God?s Kingdom across Borders Ivan Dias da Silva 5. Contingency, Joy, and the Kingdom of God: Theological Reflections on the Relationship between Divine and Human Joy Aidan Luke 6. Millennial Eden?: Baptist Postmillennialism and the Shaping of the Australian Dream Nicole Starling Part Three: The Kingdom of God and Social Interpretations Introductory Comments Terry G.
Carter 7. The Kingdom of God: A Dangerously Powerful Challenge to Oppression Stephanie Peek 8. Slavery, Justice, and the Kingdom of God: Mapping Baptist Hermeneutics in the Atlantic World Ryan J. Butler 9. "Scotching Some Myths": Apartheid, Baptist Distinctives, and the Search for Social Concern Myra Ann Houser 10. "Wonderfully Ecumenical"?: The SBC Christian Life Commission, the Mainline, and 1960s Social Concern Skylar Ray Part Four: The Kingdom of God and Providential Interpretations Introductory Comments Roger Ward 11. Kingdom-Shaped Apologetics: Making Apologetics Accessible to All Seidel Abel Boanerges 12. Baptist Perspectives on Freedom and the Kingdom of God Joshua T.
Searle Afterword Seeking the Kingdom of God: With Mind and Heart Karen Smith About the Contributors About the Editors.