Thanks to Robert Cunningham for calling my attention to a blog by Sean the Baptist that provides links to papers from a recent conference on "Baptist Identity and Ecclesiology" at Elstal Baptist Seminary in Germany.
Here's a link to a report from the conference.
Here's a link to a statement that emerged from the conference.
I'll comment about the statement and the papers after I've had time to read them.
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These are fascinating and about a tension that has run through Baptist life since our beginnings: the tension between the necessary freedom of local churches to shape their common life according to the leading of the Spirit and the "association principle" of wider structures of mission, cooperation, and fraternal admonition. At times and places in our history the wider structures have nearly obliterated local churches in a synodical or even episcopal fashion. At other times and places local church protectionism has nearly denied the global church and prevented any cooperation for mission.
The balance is difficult and Baptists will be readjusting constantly this side of the Eschaton.
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