AIDS Education and Policies among Southern Baptist Church Leaders in the State of Texas

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Aldridge ◽  
Gypsy Clayton ◽  
Rhoda Chalker
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The State ◽  
Aids Education ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes

A survey was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitudes of 67 preschool and children's directors of the Southern Baptist Convention of Texas during a statewide meeting on AIDS. Data on church policies regarding AIDS and AIDS education were also obtained from the participants.

scholarly journals An Evangelical Protestant’s Reflections on Roman Catholic Mariology

Perichoresis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Benjamin H. Arbour
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Fort Worth ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Over The Top

AbstractI count myself privileged to respond to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls recent book on Roman Catholicism. I live in Fort Worth, TX, and I am a member of Wedgwood Baptist Church, which is one of more than 40,000 churches that together comprise the Southern Baptist Convention. I mention this so readers will know that my comments come from a conservative Evangelical Protestant perspective, and my thinking stems from a tradition that is decidedly not Roman Catholic. Having said this, I’m much more sympathetic to Roman Catholicism than a great many Evangelicals, including Collins and Walls. I offer my criticisms of Rome, but I ask that readers not interpret me as someone who denies that the Roman Catholic Church counts as a Christian institution. In an effort to show good faith on this front, allow me to offer some defenses of Roman Catholicism against what I take to be over the top criticisms from some Protestant Evangelicals.

scholarly journals AN EXCLUSIVIST VIEW OF HISTORY WHICH DENIES THE BAPTIST CHURCH CAME OUT OF THE REFORMATION: A LANDMARK RECITAL OF CHURCH HISTORY

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Jim Maples
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention ◽  
Church History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Impact

The pages of church history reveal that the great variety of Protestant denominations today had their genesis in the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. However, there is a certain strain of Baptist belief, which had its origin in the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States of America in the nineteenth century, which asserts that Baptists did not spring from the Reformation. This view contends that Baptist churches and only Baptist churches have always existed in an unbroken chain of varying names from the first century to the present time. This view is known as Landmarkism. Landmark adherents reject other denominations as true churches, reject the actions of their ministers, and attach to them designations such as societies and organisations rather than churches. Baptist historians today do not espouse such views, however, a surprising number of church members, even among millennials, still hold to such views. This article surveys the origin and spread of such views and provides scholars the means to assess the impact and continuation of Landmark beliefs.

The Ideal of Professionalism and the White Southern Baptist Ministry, 1870-1920

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Paul Harvey
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Southern Baptist ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention ◽  
The Ideal

In 1917, a Baptist minister in Henderson, North Carolina, wrote to a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) worker of the frustrations pastors encountered in teaching their parishioners a “progressive” religious ethic appropriate for the age:Nearly all of us are driven by the force of circumstances to be a bit more conservative than it is in our hearts to be. I am frank to say to you that I have found it out of the question to move people in the mass at all, unless you go with a slowness that sometimes seems painful; and I have settled down to the conviction that it is better to lead people slowly than not at all.

The Southern Baptist Convention and Its People, 1607-1972.

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
William A. Poe ◽  
Robert A. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention

Broadening the Picture of Nineteenth-Century Baptists: How Battles with Catholicism Moved Baptists Toward Separationism

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-486
Author(s):  
Marty McMahone
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American Society

Discussions about the historical meaning of religious liberty in the United States often generate more heat than light. This has been true in the broad discussion of the meaning of the First Amendment in American life. The debate between “separationists” and “accommodationists” is often contentious and seldom satisfying. Both sides tend to believe that a few choice quotes that seem to disprove the other side's position prove their own. Each side is tempted to miss the more nuanced story that is reflected in the American experience. In recent years, this division has been reflected among those who call themselves Baptists. One group, best represented by the work of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, tends to argue that the Baptist heritage is clearly steeped in the separation of church and state. The other group, probably best represented by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, tends to reject the term separation and sees value in promoting an American society that “affirms and practices Judeo-Christian values rooted in biblical authority.” This group tends to reject the separationist perspective as a way of defending religious liberty. They argue that Baptists have defended religious liberty without moving to the hostility toward religion that they see in separationism. Much like the broad story of America, the Baptist story is considerably more complicated than either side makes it appear.

Old Pastor and Local Bureaucrats: Recasting Church-State Relations in Contemporary China

Modern China ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 564-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jifeng Liu ◽  
Chris White
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
The State ◽  
Local State ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Church Structure ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Church ◽  
Local Levels

In examining the relationships between a state-recognized Protestant pastor and local bureaucrats, this article argues that church leaders in contemporary China are strategic in enhancing interactions with the local state as a way to produce greater space for religious activities. In contrast to the idea that the Three-Self church structure simply functions as a state-governing apparatus, this study suggests that closer connection to the state can, at times, result in less official oversight. State approval of Three-Self churches offers legitimacy to registered congregations and their leaders, but equally important is that by endorsing such groups, the state is encouraging dialogue, even negotiations between authorities and the church at local levels.

Southern Catholics and Desegregation in Denominational Perspective, 1945–1971

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-236
Author(s):  
Mark Newman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southern Baptist ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southern Baptist Convention ◽  
Deep South ◽  
The South ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
American Baptist

The chapter compares the response of the Catholic Church in the South to desegregation with that of the region’s larger white denominations: the Southern Baptist Convention, the Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It also makes comparisons with Catholics outside the South and with southern Jews, a minority, like Catholics, subject to suspicion and even hostility from the Protestant majority, and with the Northern (later American) Baptist Convention and the Disciples of Christ, both of which had a substantial African American membership. The comparison suggests that white lay sensibilities, more than polity or theology, influenced the implementation of desegregation in the South by the major white religious bodies. Like the major white Protestant denominations, Catholic prelates and clergy took a more progressive approach to desegregation in the peripheral than the Deep South.

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