Our History from the 1880s Onward
This is a series from the FBFI’s site Proclaim and Defend.
Part 1 From Downgrade to Downfall 1880-1920:
http://www.proclaimanddefend.org/2012/07/24/from-downgrade-to-downfall/
Part 2 The Baptist Struggle - An Unfinished Fight 1920-1947:
http://www.proclaimanddefend.org/2012/07/30/the-baptist-struggle-an-unfinished-fight/
Part 3 Navigating Muddies Waters 1947-1980
http://www.proclaimanddefend.org/201…uddied-waters/
Part 4
http://www.proclaimanddefend.org/2012/08/17/our-history-from-the-1880s-onward/
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the articles are written from a Northern Baptist\CBA\FBF POV. But, they do give a good idea of how one segment of IFBdom got to where it is.
Hoping to shed more light than heat..
These articles’ story arc ends in the late 70s/early 80s, when fundamentalism was still fairly unified and a somewhat significant player in American religious culture. I wonder if Mr. Sproul could use his historical insight to see how the Jones’ and Rice’s reaction to Graham (not saying their disagreement wasn’t legitimate) led them (especially Rice) to embrace radicals leaving the SBC in the 60s and 70s, whose radicalism led to the splintering of fundamentalism into the mess it is today?
The only mention of any material after 1980 is a diss of the GARBC for allowing compromise first in the area of music, which led to compromise across the board. Oh, and somebody in the FBF accused John MacArthur of being the most dangerous man in America. It’s a good thing I didn’t have anything in my mouth when I read that or it would have been all over the monitor.
No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel will prevail against the LORD. Proverbs 21:30
for the series:
A popular perspective of movements shaping fundamentalism from 1880s to the 1920s, being a lightly edited transcript of a series of lectures given for the Adult Bible Fellowship of Tri-Cities Baptist Church during the spring of 2012
Hoping to shed more light than heat..
Great quote Rob!
Straight Ahead!
jt
Dr. Joel Tetreau serves as Senior Pastor, Southeast Valley Bible Church (sevbc.org); Regional Coordinator for IBL West (iblministry.com), Board Member & friend for several different ministries;
It explains some of the inaccuracies (about the GARBC) in the original posts. The series also helps to explain why the FBFI causes some here to scratch their heads.
[Joel Tetreau]Great quote Rob!
Straight Ahead!
jt
Hoping to shed more light than heat..
From its inception in the late 1940’s, one of the significant marks of NE was the willingness to co-operate with theological liberals and apostates in religious endeavor. Ashbrook seemed to redefine NE by labeling it “Neutralism”, permitting Fundamentalists to hang the NE label on anyone who wasn’t a militant fundamentalist.
I too found the pronouncement of labeling of John MacArthur interesting, considering the historic use of the term. But having been in a ministry that labeled everyone from BJU to Rick Warren as NEs, I’d heard it before. JM “dangerous? There are a few guys in the FBFI that scare me more.
"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan
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