Emir Caner, President of Truett-McConnell College, writes an informative piece on the Sandy Creek tradition in the Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry published by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Contra the view of many Southern Baptist Calvinists who dismiss virtually all theological distinctions between the Sandy Creek Baptist tradition and the so-called Charleston Baptist […]
North Carolina’s Friendship Baptist Association organized in 1861 as non-Calvinistic
On Oct. 25-26, 1861, a group of Baptist delegates from several churches met with the Valley Town Baptist Church on Valley River in North Carolina and organized the Friendship Baptist Association. Among the first orders of business was adoption of a confession of faith which all the churches forming the alliance could embrace. Below is […]
Free Church Anabaptists not Magisterial Reformers unloaded the theological dead wood of medievalism
Below is an excerpt from a 1918 historical essay by Rufus M. Jones (1863-1948), Quaker Christian and then Professor at Haverford College. Published in Harvard Theological Review, “The Anabaptists and Minor Sects in the Reformation” remains an enlightening read on the rise of Anabaptism during (and even before) the days when reformers like Luther, Calvin and Zwingli […]
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