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We are proud to be giving away a free copy of Broadus’ book On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons which was originally published in 1870. John Broadus was one of the founding professors of SBTS and the seminary’s second president. This book has been revised and updated by Vernon Stanfield. The giveaway will run Monday, January [...]
In an article that appeared in the Baptist Message, the state paper of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, M.E. Dodd wrote about the great contributions SBTS made to the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1925, as points five and six state, SBTS was seen as the “conservator” and “unifier” of our faith. Today, as was the case [...]
Though it is not popular in current Southern Baptist life to speak of two of our seminaries as representing Southern Baptist Calvinism, the seminaries’ own confession and guiding doctrinal document, the Abstract of Principles (AP), is a strong four-point Calvinist confession of faith. This document is to guide doctrinal teaching on the points it addresses [...]
Edgar Young Mullins (1860-1928) served as the fourth president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s first seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mullins’ book Baptist Beliefs (1912) is one of his most popular writings. His commentary on the Calvinistic New Hampshire Declaration of Faith found at the end of Baptist Beliefs gives an interesting historical perspective on the [...]
A Special Thanks to Robert Vaughn for finding this letter and putting this article together. You can read his other guest post here. Robert blogs at http://baptistsearch.blogspot.com. Francis Wayland was a long-time president of Brown University in Providence, RI. According to Albert Mohler, he was “… one of the most significant educators in antebellum America…”[1] He was [...]
The doctrine of original sin has been under much discussion as of late. Historically associated with the doctrine of original sin is the understanding of imputed guilt. Imputed guilt is the doctrine that the original sinful act of Adam and the corresponding guilt is reckoned to all of his posterity as though they had performed [...]
From the very beginning of the Southern Baptist Convention, the doctrine of inerrancy has been affirmed and treasured by Southern Baptists. Three of the founding professors of the Southern Baptist Convention’s first seminary give insight into their beliefs on inerrancy being a biblical and necessary doctrine.
When James P. Boyce envisioned a seminary that would serve the Southern Baptist Convention faithfully, his vision included two founding principles. 1. The seminary should always conform to scripture truth. 2. The seminary should always be subordinate to the convention in order to serve Southern Baptist churches. To ensure the seminary did not wander from [...]
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