About the Author

Contributors to this volume: Elizabeth Barnes, George R. Beasley-Murray, Hardy Clemons, Ralph H. Elliott, Clyde E. Fant, Paul S. Fiddes, E. Glenn Hinson, William E. Hull, Fisher Humphreys, Charles E. Poole, Robert B. Setzer, Jr., H. Stephen Shoemaker, Walter B. Shurden, Karen E. Smith, R. Wayne Stacy and Frank Stagg.

Walter B. Shurden is Minister at Large with Mercer University. He is author of numerous books including The Baptist Identity: Four Fragile Freedoms, Not a Silent People: Controversies that Have Shaped Southern Baptists and the five-volume Proclaiming the Baptist Vision set.