This letter was written by Joshua Eldridge, an undergraduate Biblical Studies student at Louisiana College, and originally appeared on his blog,  Beckon and Muse. He emailed this letter to Dr. David Hankins and has yet to receive a reply. This was reposted here with permission. Dr. Hankins, To begin, my name is Joshua Eldridge. I am [...]

Below is a list of books for sale by the Mt. Lebanon Book Association in 1856. Mt. Lebanon was the original home of Louisiana College. At the time, it was known as Mt. Lebanon University. It is interesting to see multiple books on church membership and a defense of restricted communion; two things Southern Baptists [...]

In parts one and two we saw an account of the Oklahoma County Pastor’s Conference and Dr. Duke McCall’s response.  Dr. Moody replied on August 4, 1961 with his response published in the Baptist Press.  It is simply too lengthy to post in its entirety but to be fair to Dr. Moody his full reply [...]

In Part 1, we saw Dr. Smith’s account of the 1961 Oklahoma Bible Conference in which Dr. Dale Moody’s message created a firestorm of controversy over the historic Baptist position of Perseverance.  This caused a resolution to be signed and sent to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary calling for a review of Moody’s “doctrinal soundness.”  Duke [...]

Dale Moody was professor of theology from 1948-1984 at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  According to the Seminary’s website, Moody entered “early retirement” due to “his urging of Southern to change its Abstract of Principles and conflicts with Southern Baptists on the issue of apostasy…”  

Written in 1654, “The True-Gospel Faith Declared According to the Scriptures” is one of the earliest Baptist Confessions. It affirms the sinfulness of man, the resurrection of Christ, etc. However, what I found most interesting was the letter which accompanied the confession.  The following is an excerpt from that letter.