1. The concept of Inerrancy. Southern Baptists applied a new word, “inerrancy, ” to their understanding of Scripture. Since 1650 the adjective most used by Baptists to describe their view of the Bible had been “infallible”;
I predicted 24 four years ago this crap was a real threat to our Democracy. While being attacked by certain members of Sinclair family who push for Inerrancy, I launched attacks against the Christian-right who want to purge Liberalism from America. This is a direct attack on my friends and I. The attack of the WHITE PULP PEOPLE – is real! This is why I refounded the original Christian Church made up of Nazarites.
Jon the Nazarite
A week before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Rick Santorum’s quest to emerge as the chief alternative to Mitt Romney received a boost Saturday from a group of evangelical leaders and social conservatives who voted to back his candidacy in a last-ditch effort to stop the GOP front-runner’s march to the nomination.
About three-quarters of some 150 pastors and Christian conservative political organizers meeting in Texas sided with Santorum over a home-state favorite, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — an outcome that illustrated continuing divisions within the ranks of conservatives who make up the base of the GOP..
Redactional fatigue is an important related concept: when making changes to a large text, a redactor may occasionally overlook a piece of text that conflicts with the redactional goals. Since many important ancient texts are likely to have been redacted at least once, such snippets open a window into an earlier form of the text. The nature of the conflict between the bulk of a redacted text and the contradictory windows can suggest what the goals of the redactor might have been.
re·dact (r-dkt)
tr.v. re·dact·ed, re·dact·ing, re·dacts
1. To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
2. To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
Indeed, the split-decision and frustration by some who attended the meeting punctuates the fissures that have vexed this powerful bloc of the GOP base throughout the campaign and continue to with a week left before the South Carolina vote. Social conservatives here are an influential force, but divided they would leave an opening for Romney as they did in 2008, when Arizona Sen. John McCain won the state en route to the GOP nomination.
This year, even Santorum’s backers concede time may be running out for conservative voters to rally behind their candidate.
“If that consolidation occurs, he will win this primary,” South Carolina state Sen. Chip Campsen said as he endorsed Santorum at the campaign office near Charleston. “And there are fewer options as time goes on.”
The meeting took place over two days at the Texas ranch of former state appeals court Judge Paul Pressler.
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Conservative Resurgence”
The “Genesis” controversy
In July 1961, Prof. Ralph Elliott, an Old Testament scholar at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, published a book entitled The Message of Genesis containing his interpretation of the first book of the Bible. Elliott considered his book a “very moderate” volume, though this is vastly disputed.[10] Some prominent Southern Baptists, however, saw the book in a different light and took issue with Elliot’s use of historical-critical methodology, his portrayal of Genesis 1-11 as mythological literature and his speculation that Melchizedek was a priest of Baal and not, as generally believed, of Yahweh.[11][12]
The “Genesis Controversy” quickly pervaded the entire SBC. In strong reaction to the controversy, the 1962 SBC meeting elected as its president Rev. K. Owen White, pastor of First Baptist Church Houston, who had written a prominent criticism of Elliott’s views. This began what has become an ongoing trend for SBC presidents to be elected on the basis of their theology.[5] Broadman Press, the publishing arm of the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources) in Nashville, was immediately criticized and their other materials, including Sunday School quarterlies, became suspect. Elliott’s book was withdrawn from publication, and he was later dismissed from Midwestern for insubordination.
While 87% of first year Master of Divinity students at SBTS reporting believing “Jesus is the Divine Son of God and I have no doubts about it, ” only 63% of final year graduate students made that claim, according to Hollyfield’s analysis.[16] In 1981, redacted information from Hollyfield’s thesis was put into tract form and distributed by conservatives as evidence of the need for reform from apostasy within SBC agencies.
1984: The SBC voted in Kansas City to adopt a strongly worded resolution against women in the
Former president of the SBC Jimmy R. Allen writes that the resurgence/takeover leaders searched for a battle cry to which Baptists would respond. They found it in the fear that we were not “believing the Bible.” They focused on the few who interpreted the Bible more liberally and exaggerated that fact. Allen’s assessment is that “It was like hunting rabbits with howitzers. They destroyed more than they accomplished.”[31]
A spokesman for the new leadership of the SBC, Dr. Morris Chapman, claims that the root of the controversy has been about theology.[33] He maintains that the controversy has “returned the Southern Baptist Convention to its historic commitments.” Speaking as president of the “new” SBC’s Executive Committee, Chapman cites as examples some of the Conservative Resurgency’s claims:
Our end goal is to establish a nationwide network of like-minded judges and patriots who stand in support of reforming the judicial system according to an original intent interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Redactional fatigue is an important related concept: when making changes to a large text, a redactor may occasionally overlook a piece of text that conflicts with the redactional goals. Since many important ancient texts are likely to have been redacted at least once, such snippets open a window into an earlier form of the text. The nature of the conflict between the bulk of a redacted text and the contradictory windows can suggest what the goals of the redactor might have been.
re·dact (r-dkt)
tr.v. re·dact·ed, re·dact·ing, re·dacts
1. To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
2. To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
1976. Paul Pressler, a Houston judge, and Paige Patterson, then president of Criswell College in Dallas, met in New Orleans and planned the political strategy to elect like-minded conservative/fundamentalist convention presidents and in turn members of SBC boards. The strategy was extremely successful.[2]
1978. W. A. Criswell and Adrian Rogers (both now deceased), along with Judge Pressler and Paige Patterson, met with a group of determined pastors and laymen at a hotel near the Atlanta airport to launch the resurgence/takeover. They understood William Powell’s contention that electing the president of the Southern Baptist Convention was the key to redirecting the entirety of the denomination. The Atlanta group determined to elect Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, as the first Conservative Resurgence president of the convention.[3]
1979 Houston convention. The 1979 SBC meeting in Houston, Texas,[18] produced two important developments:
1. The concept of Inerrancy. Southern Baptists applied a new word, “inerrancy, ” to their understanding of Scripture. Since 1650 the adjective most used by Baptists to describe their view of the Bible had been “infallible”; however, the term “inerrancy” had been implied in the 1833 New Hampshire Baptist Confession of Faith (“truth without any mixture of error”) in wording that, by this time, had already been incorporated into the 1925 and 1963 editions of the Baptist Faith and Message
pastorate. The rationale cited was that “man was first in creation and the woman was first in the Edenic fall.”[19]:p.159
In Judaism there had never been a belief in the literal word of the Hebrew Bible, hence the co-existence of the Oral Torah.[6] Within Christianity, some mainstream Evangelical and Protestant groups adhere to the current inerrancy of Scripture as it reads today
Biblical inerrancy is the doctrinal position that the Bible is accurate and totally free of error, that “Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.”[1] Some equate inerrancy with infallibility; others do not.[2]
Conservative Christians generally believe that God inspired the authors and redactors of the Bible. Hence, they wrote material that was error-free.
Judge Paul Pressler, 73, “has been a director of Salem Communications Corporation since March 2002, and is also a board member of the Free Market Foundation and KHCB Network, a non-profit corporation which owns Christian radio stations in Texas and Louisiana, and a board member of National Religious Broadcasters. He has been an active leader in the Southern Baptist Convention. Additionally, he is a member of the Texas Philosophical Society, the General Counsel of the Baptist World Alliance, and a member of the State Republican Executive Committee of Texas. Since 2000, Judge Pressler has been a partner in the law firm of Woodfill & Pressler, a director of Revelation, Inc., and has been in private mediation practice for several years as well. A retired justice of the Texas Court of Appeals, Judge Pressler was appointed Justice of the Texas Court of Appeals in 1978, serving until 1992. Judge Pressler also served as District Judge from 1970 to 1978. From 1958 to 1970, he was associated with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins.”–Forbes; accessed March 1, 2005.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) experienced an intense struggle for control of the resources and ideological direction of the now sixteen million member denomination. The theological/political campaign began around 1960. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals. Its initiators called it a Conservative Resurgence[1] while its detractors have labeled it a Fundamentalist Takeover.[2] The movement was primarily aimed at reorienting the denomination away from a perceived liberal trajectory[2] and towards an unambiguous affirmation of biblical inerrancy.[3]
It was achieved by the systematic election, beginning in 1979, of conservative individuals to lead the Southern Baptist Convention. Theologically moderate and liberal leaders were voted out of office. Though some senior employees were fired from their jobs, most were replaced through attrition. All moderate and liberal presidents, professors, department heads, etc., of Southern Baptist seminaries, mission groups and other convention-owned institutions were replaced with conservatives.[4] The Takeover/Resurgence was the most serious controversy ever to occur within the Southern Baptist Convention—the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.[2] One of its chief architects later described it as a “reformation…achieved at an incredibly high cost.”[3]
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