EDITOR'S NOTE: Clint Bass (DPhil, Oxford) is a Baptist historian and member of Southern Hills Baptist Church, Bolivar, Mo. Last February, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee deemed Saddleback Church a body “not in friendly cooperation with the convention.” As an attempt to contest the Executive Committee’s actions, Saddleback pastor Rick Warren published an open letter on 2 June. His basic claim is that Southern Baptists have lost their way in creedalism and this … [Read more...]
The church restored: A baptistic contribution to the Reformation
JEFFERSON CITY – In the early sixteenth century, the Church of Rome was in deep trouble. As described in earlier editions of the Pathway, several leaders emerged with hopes of repairing the Western Church from within. Sadly, their proposed reforms were rejected and they soon found themselves on the outs with the pope and his bishops. Yet Lutheran and Reformed ideas took root and, before long, Protestantism was dominant in the northern third of Europe. But there appeared pockets of … [Read more...]