Friday, June 09, 2006

Calvinism Dividing Southern Baptists

Kudos to Bob Allen at Ethics Daily for his essay detailing the divisions cropping up within the Southern Baptist Convention over the resurgence of Calvinism that has taken place since the takeover. Here's a noteworthy quote:

In a widely disseminated quote from 2004, Patterson advised: "When you are called to a church, be sure that you are a man of integrity and you disclose your full theological position to the church to which you are called. Many a church has called a pastor only to find, only to discover, a couple of years in, that he is determined to take the church in the direction of a Calvinistic church. He never told them that up front. He may even have deliberately misled them.

"One of my sorrows in hiring professors across these years is that I've often asked that question and gotten a misleading answer and found out later that this man was in the classroom perpetuating the system of Calvinism."

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