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SBC Heritage is a blog focused on the history of the Southern Baptist Convention. The recent events surrounding the non renewal of contracts at Louisiana College have hit close to home. Both admins for this blog are graduate students at the Caskey School of Divinity. It is deeply troubling and this situation bears watching. Until [...]
“The Board being so pressed I have declined two months’ salary. This I do very cheerfully, though it presses me. I have lived with sufficient comfort in some things, but have used and am using a very strict economy, foregoing many things that I think few brethren would wish or expect me to do.”- [...]
Dr. Scott Culpepper is Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana College and he is the author of Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence. He is married to Ginger and the father of 3. His education includes: Ph.D., Baylor University M.A., Northwestern State University M. Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary B.A., Louisiana College Southern Baptists must reach back to the [...]
William Johnson, the first President of the Southern Baptist Convention in his work, The Gospel Developed had this to say about Christian unity: In this exhibition of my views, I intend no censure upon my brethren, or others who entertain different views. The right which I exercise in holding my views of divine truth, I cheerfully accord [...]
Last week, a document was released that generated so much traffic websites crashed. I disagree with many points in the document and I have seen some very well crafted responses to the errors and misrepresentations contained in the document. Eric Hankins’ document does not get to the heart of what it means to be a [...]
Much Baptist history is written in controversy. This tendency often invokes sadness in us. But it should be no surprise that Baptists who hold a high view of Scripture would fight for and even divide over what they contend Scripture teaches. The Southern Baptist Convention was not only birthed in controversy, but also developed in [...]
There is a fault line forming in the Southern Baptist Convention that I am afraid is about to split wide open. It seems that every day in the SBC blogosphere there is discussion over the theological divide in the SBC and some are less than pleasant. Some articles I have read have not been much [...]
James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888), the founding president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, affirmed the federal headship of Adam and the doctrine of original sin. On whether man inherits guilt and is under condemnation prior to actual personal transgression, Boyce writes: Consequently, at the very moment of birth, the presence and possession of such a [...]
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