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Book Review: Noble, Wretched, and Redeemable: Protestant Missionaries to the Indians of Canada and the United States, 1820–1900

in biblical inerrancy-and winning control of the denomination-accomplished by the early 1990s-conservatives have set their sights on fighting and winning the culture war for America's soul. Hankins largely stays true to the book's purpose, explaining rather than refuting the conservative position on religious liberty, abortion, women in the pulpit, and race relations. His evangelical bias does show at times, finding little to fault in the SBC position on abortion and religious liberty/churchstate issues while questioning their restrictive interpretation of women in ministry and their unbending literalist approach to inerrancy. The author errs, though, by insisting that conservatives are real Baptist-type cultural dissenters, compared with former moderate leaders merely "at ease" in their Southern cultural "Zion." Cultural dissent is not limited to opposing the secular effects of pluralism. Dissent also combats those tendencies within culture-present among Christians since Constantine in the fourth century-to eradicate diversity in favor of homogeneity and "traditional" (that is, culturally and ecclesiastically approved) forms of faith. Rather than reflecting the position of early Baptists, who resisted religious conformity, SBC conservatives proudly defend the twentieth-century's neoevangelical cause in their fight to return America to more religiously and culturally "pristine" days. Hankins' book serves as a must read for those interested in contemporary American culture and how the country's largest Protestant denomination aims to transform the whole population after their own image.