CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 34 A Big Body of Baptists

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CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 34A Big Body of
Baptists
The Southern Baptist Convention Its origin,
history and present condition
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I. Review of Baptists in America
New England
Middle Colonies
1688 Lower Dublin
July 21, 1707 Philadelphia Baptist Association
South
1751 Charleston Association
1758 Sandy Creek Association
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1814 General Missionary Convention of the
Baptist Denomination in the United States of
America for Foreign Missions
Triennial Convention
1832 American Home Missionary Society
May 1845 Southern Baptist Convention Augusta
Georgia
Evangelical Calvinists
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W. B. Johnson 1845-1851
R. B. C. Howell 1851-1859
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1859-1863 Richard Fuller
Jesse Mercer
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P. H. Mell
John L Dagg 1794-1881
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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1859 Greenvi
lle, SC
Basil Manly, Sr
Basil Manly, Jr
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James Petigru Boyce
John A Broadus
Abstract of Theology
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How did the SBC fare in the 20th Century?
Programs vs Doctrine
1905 1,900,000
1920 3,150,000
1935 4,480,000
1950 7,080,000
1965 10,780,000
1980 13,700,000
1995 15,400,000
2000 15,900,000
2005 16,300,000
Were these regenerate church members?
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Last Half of Nineteenth Century
Liberalism / Modernism
A movement whos adherents were seeking to
reshape the Christian faith into a form which
would be acceptable to modern man
Fatherhood of God Brotherhood of Man
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How did Modernism invade the church?
Dr. George Marsden Fundamentalism and the
American Culture

• SOCIETAL
• POLITICAL/ECONOMIC
• PHILOSPHICAL/SCIENTIFIC
• THEOLOGICAL/PRACTICAL

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SOCIETAL Settlement of the West Flood of
immigrants in the East
POLITICAL/ECONOMIC DemocracyCapitalismextrem
e individualism
American way!
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PHILOSOPHICAL/SCIENTIFIC FACTORS
Philosophy A search for truth through logical
reasoning rather than factual observation Webs
ter, p 635
1926 What Christian Liberals are Driving At
Fosdick (1878-1969)
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• Philosophical Influences
• Empiricism

• Rationalism

• Romanticism

• Scientific Influences
• The Hypothesis of Evolution

RESULT FOUNDATION FOR THE SOCIAL GOSPEL
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THEOLOGICAL/PRACTICAL FACTORS
Higher Criticism
Man centered Arminian theology
Denominational structures
Push for unity for evangelism missions
Para church organizations
Independent mission boards
Dispensationalism
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REACTION TO MODERNISM
Dr. Jack Arnold Questioning Attitude
Indifferent Attitude
Fighting Attitude
Bible Conferences
Bible Colleges
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Two Movements Recovery of Conservative
Principals Recovery of Doctrines of Grace
Paul Pressler
Paige Patterson (1942-)
Anatomy of a Reformation
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Recovery of the Doctrines of Grace
The Southern Baptist Conference on the Faith of
our Founders Memphis, July 1983
Earnest Reisinger
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Our purpose is to encourage pastors, students and
church leaders to recover the gospel of God's
grace and work for the spiritual health and
reformation of local churches. Our abiding
concerns We desire to be orthodox without
being obnoxious. We want to be confessional,
yet contemporary. We are Southern Baptist,
though not sectarian. Our goal is to be
doctrinally and devotionally balanced.
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R Albert Mohler (1954-)