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Southern Baptists established The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina. The founding faculty had an impressive academic record. James P. Boyce graduated from Brown University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
The momentum begun, attendees of the 1857 Education Convention in Louisville formally approved the motion to begin The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. One year later, Convention members selected the Seminary faculty. The first faculty possessed strong minds and devoted faith.
Southern Seminary’s story at first seems so predictable: visionary, sacrificial, indefatigable, robustly orthodox pastor-theologians founded it; later presidents and faculty sympathetically continued it but took it in a slightly different direction by tolerating degrees of theological liberalism; successive leadership veered so far off course ...
The Seminary began in 1858 under the leadership of James Petigru Boyce. (Note: one “t” Petigru, not two, as in the mis-spelled and mis-named “Pettigru Historic District.”) Supported by southern...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, evangelical Christians widely believed the Bible says life begins at birth and supported looser abortion policies. Given current evangelical anti-abortion activism, the reality and significance of this history deserves fuller discussion.
This walk through time presents the key figures, events, and ideas of a legacy stretching from 1859 until today. Founding: 1859-1878. Controversy: 1878-1889. Calm: 1889-1895. Conflict: 1895-1899. Progressivism: 1899-1919. Ambition: 1919-1928. Perseverance: 1928-1942. Construction: 1942-1950. Tension: 1950-1981. Polarization: 1981-1993.
Oct 13, 2008 · In 1959, Southern Seminary professor William Mueller wrote A History of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Nashville: Broadman Press), a chronicle of the seminary’s first one hundred years. Mueller’s A History begins with a description of the need for a seminary.
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