International baptist perspectives on human rights

Baptist History and Heritage, Spring, 2008 by Charles W. Deweese

(1.) Presented to the Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Shades Crest Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, April 20, 2007.

(2.) The four volumes include the following: 1986-1990--William H. Brackney with Ruby J. Burke (eds.), Faith, Life, and Witness (Birmingham, AL: Samford University Press, 1990), 241-313; 1990-1995--William H. Brackney and L. A. (Tony) Cupit (eds.), Baptist Faith & Witness (Birmingham, AL: Samford University Press and McLean, VA: Baptist World Alliance, 1995), 104-34; 1995-2000--L. A. (Tony) Cupit (ed.), Baptist Faith and Witness (McLean, VA: Baptist World Alliance, 1999), 213-59; 2000-2005--L. A. (Tony) Cupit (ed.), Baptist Faith & Witness (Falls Church, VA: Baptist World Alliance, 2005), 166-215.

(3.) James E. Wood, Jr., Baptists and Human Rights (N.p.: BWA Human Rights Commission, 1997), 5, 21.

(4.) Ibid., 4.

(5.) James Leo Garrett, Jr., We Baptists: Study and Research Division, Baptist World Alliance (Franklin, TN: Providence House Publishers, 1999), 77, 80-83.

(6.) Ibid., 83-84.

(7.) bid., 85.

(8.) 1905 BWA Congress Proceedings, 152.

(9.) Ibid., 264-74.

(10.) 1911 BWA Congress Proceedings, 64.

(11.) Ibid., 65.

(12.) Ibid., 84.

(13.) Ibid., 373-76.

(14.) 1923 BWA Congress Proceedings, xxxi.

(15.) Ibid., 225.

(16.) 1928 BWA Congress Proceedings, 244, 245, 248, 249.

(17.) Ibid., 266-67.

(18.) 1934 BWA Congress Proceedings, 32, 35, 37.

(19.) Ibid., 37-38.

(20.) 1939 BWA Congress Proceedings, 198.

(21.) Ibid., 199.

(22.) Ibid., 200.

(23.) 1950 BWA Congress Proceedings, 140.

(24.) Ibid., 141.

(25.) Ibid.

(26.) Ibid., 336-38.

(27.) Ibid., 340.

(28.) 1955 BWA Congress Proceedings, 116-22, 321-26, 369-70.

(29.) 1960 BWA Congress Proceedings, 296, 297-300.

(30.) 1965 BWA Congress Proceedings, 84-88, 236-47, 280-321, 482.

(31.) 1970 BWA Congress Proceedings, 121-30, 226-30, 251-52, 360-71.

(32.) 980 BWA Congress Proceedings, 170-78.

(33.) 1985 BWA Congress Proceedings, 163-80.

(34.) 2005 BWA Congress Proceedings, 30-35.

(35.) 1975 BWA Congress Proceedings, 255-59; 1980 Proceedings, 241-42; 1985 Proceedings, 218-19; 1990 Proceedings, 160; 1995 Proceedings, 205-06; 2000 Proceedings, 161-62.

(36.) 1995 BWA Congress Proceedings, 100-02; 2000 Proceedings, 74-76; 2005 Proceedings, 68-69.

(37.) 1980 BWA Congress Proceedings, 246-50.

(38.) Ibid., 250.

Charles W. Deweese is executive director, Baptist History and Heritage Society, Atlanta, Georgia.