Bibles, Baptists, and Britannia

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The Baptist Church is a denomination born in bloody conflict and dogged by controversy. The English Bible is not only the best-selling book of all time, but has been the eye of an uninterrupted ecclesiastical storm from its very inception, a dramatic tempest in which the venerable King James' or 'Authorized' version now dominates center stage.

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Where these unique elements converge and later diverge into their own separate historical niches is a story rich in human conflict, divine oversight, replete with great heroism, abject cowardice, amazing decency and unparalleled knavery. Saints and scalawags alike comprise the dramatis personae. The story can never be exhausted, no matter how often retold.

This book endeavors to present the saga in a coherent, accurate manner in an effort to bring its reader to a clearer understanding of the strange and fascinating world of all three elements of the uniquedrama - "Bibles, Baptists, and Britannia. Read more Read less.

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Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. View or edit your browsing history. Nettles have outlined the most comprehensive study on the historical views of Scripture among Baptists in their book Baptists and the Bible. Bush and Nettles, both professors at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at the time, published the original version of the book in amidst a battle between moderates and conservatives within the Southern Baptist Convention over the nature of the Bible, including its inspiration and authority.

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Their motivation in writing the book was clear: Part One of the book traces Baptist heritage up through the middle of the nineteenth century. Through recounting stories of Baptists in church history and examining common Baptist confessions of faith, Bush and Nettles prove that Baptists have historically held strong theological convictions based on an unwavering commitment to the infallibility of the Word of God. Beginning with John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, Bush and Nettles demonstrate that the inerrancy of Scripture was a foundational doctrine of the earliest Baptists 13, Additionally, General and Particular Baptists, although differing in their understanding of soteriology, both held to a high view of Scripture.

This theological framework pervaded their confessions and sparked the modern mission movement through Andrew Fuller, William Carey, and Adoniram Judson.

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Dagg, it is apparent that the division of North and South had little to do with disagreements on the doctrine of Scripture. In Part Two, Bush and Nettles shift gears and trace the divergence of views concerning the inspiration and infallibility of Scripture to the Enlightenment. They show the trajectory of growing tensions among Baptists that eventually led to modern debates.

On the forefront of the battle for Scriptural integrity in the late nineteenth century, men like James P. Boyce and Basil Manly, Jr.

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Graves, best known for his outspoken adherence to the Landmark Movement, also contended for a view of Scripture that holds to inerrancy as well as the plenary verbal theory of inspiration. Bush and Nettles do a remarkable job of contrasting the theological views of John A. Broadus and Crawford H.

Toy in America as well as those of Charles H. Both Broadus and Spurgeon maintained the fundamental views of the divine inspiration and infallibility of Scripture, while Toy and Clifford relied on evolutionary theory and human reason as their authority. Bush and Nettles then compare the strong faith in the Scriptures among Southern Baptists with the growing neo-orthodox views among Northern Baptists that eventually spread from their schools to the mission field While conservatives in the North, such as Carl Henry and J.