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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
The Making of a Battle Royal: The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 1870–1920
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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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Release dateApr 17, 2018
ISBN9781498240550
The Making of a Battle Royal: The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 1870–1920
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Jeffrey Paul Straub

Jeff Straub is the Professor of Historical Theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Minneapolis. When he is not teaching in Minnesota, he is often teaching overseas in Africa, Asia, or Europe.

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