Being Baptist: Polity & Politics, Race & Culture, Theology & Practice

Harvard HDS

Among its vast array of denominations and non-denominational members, doctrines, social, cultural, racial, political, and theological makeups and identities, “baptist” has always carried cultural assumptions, perceptions, and implications in the public sphere. This course will take a rigorous and full immersion into the broad strokes of baptist history from the bible to its ark of traditions and distinctives, geographies and regional identities, democratic/congregational…