CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 34 A Big Body of Baptists

1. CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 34A Big Body of Baptists The Southern Baptist Convention: It’s origin, history and present condition

2. 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

3. 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”

4. W. B. Johnson 1845-1851 R. B. C. Howell 1851-1859

5. 1859-1863 Richard Fuller Jesse Mercer

6. P. H. Mell John L Dagg 1794-1881

7. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1859 Greenville, SC Basil Manly, Sr Basil Manly, Jr

8. James Petigru Boyce John A Broadus Abstract of Theology

9. How did the SBC fare in the 20th Century? Programs vs Doctrine “Were these regenerate church members?”

10. Last Half of Nineteenth Century Liberalism / Modernism “A movement who’s adherents were seeking to reshape the Christian faith into a form which would be acceptable to modern man” Fatherhood of God Brotherhood of Man

11. How did Modernism invade the church? Dr. George Marsden Fundamentalism and the American Culture • SOCIETAL • POLITICAL/ECONOMIC • PHILOSPHICAL/SCIENTIFIC • THEOLOGICAL/PRACTICAL

12. SOCIETAL: Settlement of the West Flood of immigrants in the East POLITICAL/ECONOMIC: Democracy+Capitalism=extreme individualism American way!

13. PHILOSOPHICAL/SCIENTIFIC FACTORS Philosophy “A search for truth through logical reasoning rather than factual observation” Webster, p 635 1926 “What Christian Liberals are Driving At” Fosdick (1878-1969)

14. Philosophical Influences: • Empiricism • Rationalism • Romanticism • Scientific Influences: • The Hypothesis of Evolution RESULT: FOUNDATION FOR THE SOCIAL GOSPEL

15. THEOLOGICAL/PRACTICAL FACTORS Higher Criticism Man centered Arminian theology Denominational structures Push for unity for evangelism & missions Para church organizations Independent mission boards Dispensationalism

16. REACTION TO MODERNISM Dr. Jack Arnold Questioning Attitude Indifferent Attitude Fighting Attitude Bible Conferences Bible Colleges

17. Two Movements: Recovery of Conservative Principals Recovery of Doctrines of Grace Paul Pressler Paige Patterson (1942-) Anatomy of a Reformation

18. Recovery of the Doctrines of Grace “The Southern Baptist Conference on the Faith of our Founders” Memphis, July 1983 Earnest Reisinger

19. 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.

20. R Albert Mohler (1954-)