The Making of a Battle Royal: The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 1870–1920

The Making of a Battle Royal: The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 1870–1920
ISBN-10
1498240550
ISBN-13
9781498240550
Category
Religion
Pages
414
Language
English
Published
2018-04-17
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Jeffrey Paul Straub

Description

American Baptists emerged from the Civil War as a divided group. Slavery, landmarkism, and other issues sundered Baptists into regional clusters who held more or less to the same larger doctrinal sentiments. As the century progressed, influences from Europe further altered the landscape. A new way to view the Bible--more human, less divine--began to shape Baptist thought. Moreover, Darwinian evolutionism altered the way religion was studied. Religion, like humanity itself, was progressing. Conservative Baptists--proto fundamentalists--objected to these alterations. Baptist bodies had a new enemy--theological liberalism. The schools were at the center of the story in the earliest days as professors, many of whom studied abroad, returned to the United States with progressive ideas that were passed on to their students. Soon these ideas were being presented at denominational gatherings or published in denomination papers and books. Baptists agitated over the new views, with some professors losing their jobs when they strayed too far from historic Baptists commitments. By 1920, the Northern Baptists, in particular, broke out into an all-out war over theology that came to be called "The Fundamentalist-Modernist" controversy. This is the fifty-year history behind that controversy.

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