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| Factors Contributing to the formation of the SBC |
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1. Disagreements on methods of organization
2. problems in home mission work
3. slavery |
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1. affirmed the division grew out of the northern violation of constitutions of mission societies
2. claimed that southerners were restoring the original basis of Baptist missionary work
3. stated that the purpose for forming the SBC was not defense of slavery but extension of kingdom of God |
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| American Baptist Missionary Union |
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| Baptist Women and Missions |
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-ecumenical societies formed:
-Women's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands 1861
-sectional societies then formed by Baptist Women |
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| trends in Northern Baptist Mission Efforts |
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-Decision making
-main focus of work
-indigenous churches
-the role of women missionaries |
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| American Baptist Publication Society |
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-purpose:"to promote evangelical religion by means of the Bible, the printing press, colportage, and the Sunday School."
-society formed Sunday Schools and issued lesson helps for pupils and teachers
-colporteurs sold publications house to house and church to church, 1851-27 cols, 1855 69 cols
-chapel cars or "church on wheels" were used as a creative ministry of the ABPS |
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| American Baptist Home Mission Society |
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met challenges:
1. European Immigration (250,000 ppl immigrated between 1790-1820---20 million immigrated between 1880-1900)
2. freed slaves
3. population explosion
met these needs through--church edifice work (fund and loans), Freedman's Fund (sponsored evangelistic&education work among Southern blacks), Formation of African American colleges (morehouse college in Atlanta and Bishop college in Marshall Tx), provision of training for ethnic pastors(formed language departments in several seminaries) |
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Major Mission Field
1. China- J. Lewis& Henrietta Shus, Lottie Moon, Women's Missionary Union 1888
2. Africa- African Baptist Missionary Society, Richmond, 1815, 1821 assisted by American Colonization Society and Triennial Convention sent Lott Cary and Collin Teague to Liberia
3. Italy-first mission area in Europe for the Baptists-1850
4. Mexico- 1880
5. Brazil-1880, William and Anne Luther Bagby
6. Japan 1889 |
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| Foreign Mission Board Statistics & problems |
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1900-6537 members, 113 churches, 6 nations, 94 missionaries
problems: apathy, lack of information, doctrinal controversy, antimission opposition, union blockade prevented SBC funds from going to missionaries, lack of money after the war, health concerns (disease, accidents, martyrdom, hostile gvmts, building restrictions |
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1845- the SBC formed the Board of Domestic Missions, worked in 14 states, 8 million people
1874- changed name to Home Mission Board, moved from Alabama to Atlanta
-I. T. Tichenor was the new secretary of the HMB |
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1891-formed
Reasons for slow start:
1. did not want to duplicate work of ABPS & other groups
2. 1845- fewer than 500 Baptist churches in the South w/ Sunday schools
3. lingering impact of the depression of 1837 made them wary of overextending itself
4. private companies were already supplying Sunday School literatue |
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1. war with England put a stop to the practice of sending students to England to study
2. religious awakening led to the founding of colleges and the rise of the mission movement, luther rice saw Baptist colleges as an essential part of the mission movement
3. the westward expansion included colleges |
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1. 1859, Southern Seminary opened with 4 professors and 26 students
2. James Boyce (president) suggested 3 guiding theological schools--a. Baptist schools of theology should provide a suitable course of study for students who have not completed college
b. Baptist schools should provide another track of very high academic theological education
c. faculty should be aked to sign a statement of Baptist faith |
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| Landmark Movement Leaders |
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1. JR Graves-father of landmarkism, pastored 2nd Baptist Church in Nashville 1845, editor of Tennessee Baptist, wrote Old Landmarkism: What Is It? 1880
2. JM Pendleton 1811-1891-pastor Bowling Green, KY, wrote a pamphlet 1854 urging Baptists to abandon the custom of pulpit exchange w/ other denoms (An Old Landmark Re-set), coined the term 'landmark' in the Tenn Baptist, 1867- Church Manual
AC Dayton- presbyterian dentist, fictional novel Theodosia Ernest Or Heroine of Faith |
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1. Baptist churches are the only true churches in the world
2. the true church is a local visible institution
3. the churches and the kingdom of God are coterminous
4. there must be no pulpit affiliation with non-Baptists
5. only a church can do churchly acts
6. Baptist churches have always existed in every age by an unbroken historical succession |
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| Evaluation of Landmarkism |
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it was....
1. based on historical assumptions not facts
2. based on insecurity
3. demonstrated low tolerance for ambiquity or diversity
4. was regional in nature |
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| Lingering effects of Landmarkism |
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Baptist churches continue to....
1. have an exaggerated emphasis on local church autonomy
2. experience tension over alien immersion and closed communion
3. be suspicious of "other" denominations
4. refuse to participate in ecumenical organizations |
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| African American Baptist Conventions |
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Definition
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
American Baptist Churches, USA |
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| First African American Baptist |
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| "Jack a colored man" 1652, joined John Clarke's church in New Port Rhode Island |
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| Participation in White Churches Prior to Civil War |
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-slaves often outnumbered whites in southern churches
-First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC (1846) 1, 643 members only 261 were white |
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-Silver Bluff Baptist Church-Aiken County, SC 1773/75
-First Colored Baptist Church, Savannah, GA 1788
-Joy Street Baptist Church, Boston, Mass 1804
-Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, New York 1808 |
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| Association and Mission Societies |
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-First association Ohio 1834,
-Richmond African Baptist Society 1815(Lott Carey, Collin Teague, William Crane)
-Baptist Foreign Mission Convention 1880, William W. Colley
-National Baptist Convention-1895, EC Morris |
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| African American Baptist Women |
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-Women's Convention 1900
-Nannie Helen Burroughs- 1900, "How the Sister's are Hindered from Helping"
1920- rebuked the AA leaders of her denomination for preaching, 'too much heaven and too little practical Christian living' and called on them to 'make their religion a real, potent factor in race regeneration' |
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| Progressive National Baptist Convention 1961 |
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Joseph Jackson-1900-1990, president of NBC
Opposition to Jackson: Gardner C. Taylor, MLK Sr, MLK Jr, Ralph Abernathy, Benjamin Mays, L. Venchael Booth
-New convention formed, Cincci Nov 1961 |
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| Baptist World Alliance (BWA) |
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| -1905, Alexander Maclaren, first president |
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Amzi Clarence Dixon- The Fundamentals 1910-15
1. biblical inerrancy
2. the virgin birth of Jesus
3. the substitutionary nature of death
4. his bodily resurrection
5. his miraculous powers
6. his imminent and personal return to establish his kingdom on earth |
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-pastor First Baptist Church of Dallas
-chair of Seventy-Five Million Campaign
-SBC president 1927-29
-Baptist World Alliance president 1934-39
-Best-known sermon: "Baptists and Religious Liberty", US Capitol, DC, 1920 |
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| (Fundamentalism in the South) J. Frank Norris |
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-Pastor First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Tx
-Harsh critic of Seventy Five Million Campaign, Baylor University
-D.E. Chipps 1926
-Pastor Temple Baptist Church Detroit Michigan |
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| (Progressivism in the South) E Y Mullins |
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-President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
-SBC President 1921-24
-Baptist World Alliance president 1923-28, Axioms of Religion (1908), Soul Competency |
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| Baptist Modernist/Liberal Proponents |
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-Walter Rauschenbush(Social Gospel)pastor Second German Baptist Church, Christianity and the Social Crisis 1907, Christianizing the Social Order 1912, A Theology for the Social Gospel 1917
-Harry Emerson Fosdick 1922, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?", "Opinions may be mistaken; love never is"
-American Baptist Convention 1950,
-American Baptist Churches in the USA 1972 |
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| The Southern Baptist Convention |
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-explosive growth
-Four comity conferences
-Baptist Executive Committee 1917
-Seventy Five Million Campaign 1919
-Cooperative Program 1919(centralized and stabilized giving/fundraising)
-Churches gave percentages of budget to SBC |
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-Ethlene Cox, first woman to address the SBC 1929 WMU president
-Addie Davis, first SB woman to be ordained 1964 |
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| Historical-Critical Method of Biblical Study |
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| Ralph Elliot-controversial commentary, Message of Genesis, 1961 |
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| The Fndamentalist-Moderate Controvesy |
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Fundamentalist Leaders: Judge Paul Pressler, Paige Patterson, Adrian Rogers, W. A. Criswell,
Issues:Inerrancy of the scripture, control of the convention, ordination of women
Moderate Leaders: Cecil Sherman, Walter Shurden |
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| Southern Baptist Resolutions: |
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1984-resolution against ordination of women
1988-resolution downplaying the priesthood of believers |
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| Formation of the CBF 1990 |
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Cecil Sherman
Daniel Vestal
Suzii Paynter |
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| Lessons Learned, Walter Shurden, Not A Silent People 1995 |
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-Controversy is ineveitable among
Baptists
-Controversy is painful but often profitable
-controversy is often embodied in powerful personalities
-controversy is never finally & absolutely settled among Baptists |
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| Baptist Organizations 2014 |
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CBF
Baptist History and Heritage Society
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
Associated Baptist Press
Baptist Women in Ministry |
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