Southern Baptist Controversies
Controversies in a Changing World
Chute, Finn & Haykin
Following World War II, Baptists in the English-speaking world became embroiled in several controversies. This paper particularly looks at those surrounding Southern Baptists.
The Puritan Roots of the American Baptist Movement
John B. Carpenter, PhD
The fog around Baptist origins from Puritanism is created by a confluence of differences in defining “Puritan,” the chaotic jumble of early seventeenth century English ecclesiastical history, and basic historiographical issues on how to approach Baptist origins.
The Birth of Baptist Churches: Puritan Recovery of the Great Pattern
Michael A.G. Haykin, ThD
Baptists were birthed in the matrix of Puritanism, that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century movement of reform and renewal.
Mr. Smith Goes to the Convention
Megan Basham
In May of 2022, Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia, sent an email to the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. As the only full-time staff member of a church of about 100, he had never had any interaction with his national leadership before, so he began with a chipper greeting introducing himself and his congregation, followed by a straightforward question: Is a church that has a woman serving as pastor deemed to be in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention? … He finished by thanking the committee for its service and said he looked forward to their answer.
He would never get one.
Rick Warren’s Four Fallacies of Faithless Fraternity
Tom Nettles, PhD
The New Testament often sets forth “the faith” as central to the apostolic mission, the pastor’s task, the Christian’s grasp of truth that is saving and sanctifying, and the true test of unity in the Christian profession.
What Can the Righteous Do?: Some Thoughts on the Sufficiency of Scripture and the SBC
Allen S. Nelson IV
“What shall we do when the Bible is undermined and its teaching disregarded – when even churchmen seem to support the rising tide of secularism?”
