- Collection:
- Interdenominational Theological Center Theses & Dissertations Collection
- Title:
- A historical investigation of the growth and development of selected black Baptist associations and state conventions in the South and the evolvement of a conceptual process model for developing wholistic missions centered denominational units, 1980
- Creator:
- Perkins, William Thomas
- Date of Original:
- 1980-01-01
- Subject:
- Dissertations, Academic
Degrees, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The study begins from the hypothesis that many black associations and state conventions were organized to support theological education or other education centers. The author further posit that this loyalty to their educational objective has thwarted the possibilities for actualizing the equally significant missions objectives in a wholistic way. Therefore, the project director must conclude that this research problem is timely because it proposes to aid sensitive Black Baptist Associations and State Conventions in becoming more missions directed. This will facilitate their procuring a headquarters, developing staff consultant enablers, resources, missions services, and church develop-ment programs that scratch where local black churches itch. The key purposes of this investigation will be to provide a historical study of these entities and to develop a process model for a missions centered denominational unit that will be workable for associations and state conventions who are in the process of devising mission strategies. Chapter One examines the Biblical implications for the historical foundations of denominational units. The Biblical basis for missions will be applicable to any denominational unit. The historical research deals specifically with the trek of Black denominational units. It provides an overview of the setting out of which Black people and hence Black Baptist Christians developed in a country plagued by the tradition of its "peculiar institution" of slavery and racism. Chapter Two recounts the significant parts of the history of each of the Black denominational units being investigated for analysis. The two major state conventions being examined are the Baptist General Convention of Virginia and the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. The major association being examined is the Central District Association of Louisville, Kentucky. A secondary focus is the history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention and the Mt. Pilgrim District Association of Birmingham, Alabama, a wing of that convention. Chapter Three will describe the foundational process theory as it is organized in its one theological and five empirical areas. Chapter Four will present a brief introduction of how these six categories were developed from the foundational process theory in Chapter Three. And how these categories of analysis will be utilized in the evaluation of the data. It will also set forth the six categorical areas with the corresponding questions used to analyze the data. Chapter Five will focus on the data from the respondents' answers to the questions and presented selected responses and will analyze it In light of the total spectrum of concerns, using the six categories of evaluation presented in Chapter Four. Chapter Six presents the process model that has emerged from this study and describes each state in the process. Chapter Seven sets forth the implications of the data for the author's own ministry, and that of searching and struggling Associations and State Conventions in their move to become more missions oriented. Areas of future study are introduced and shared.
Date of award: 1980-01-01
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Granting institution: Interdenominational Theological Center
Advisor: Wimberly, Edward P. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.td:1980_perkins_william_t
- Holding Institution:
- Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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