Leading Baptist organization in 19th century Britain
Baptist Missionary Society
Baptist Missionary Society’s first secretary, who held the ropes for Carey
Andrew Fuller
Charles Spurgeon and the Downgrade Controversy
Battle with the Baptist Union over liberalism
Resigned but with few followers
Compromised his health
Revival that transformed America about the turn of the 19th century
2nd great Awakening
Circuit riding methodists vs. Farmer preacher Baptists
Circuit assigned by a bishop
Baptist pioneers gathered and whoever knew the Bible best preached
Furman vs. Wayland on the purpose of the Triennial Convention
Furman–true convention= home and foreign missions, education
Wayland=societal approach
Founding of the Southern Baptist Convention
Triennial C wouldn’t send slaveholders as missionaries
Southern churches seceded
Started the Southern Baptist Convention
3 Northern Societies 19th c
American Baptist Missionary Union
American Baptist Publication Society
American Baptist Home Mission Society
4 reasons for anti-missions Baptist Churches
- No representation on mission boards
- Unpaid pastors
- Church autonomy
- Hyper-calvinism
3 principle components of landmarkism
Baptist Churches are the only true churches
Closed communion+no pulpit sharing
Successionist theory of Baptist history
When did the National Baptist Convention begin?
1895
Alexander Carson
Wrote the best defense of Believer Baptism
Alexander Maclaren
Scottish pastor in Manchester, melticulous exposition of Scripture, Downgrade failure
Isaac McCoy
Commissioned to evangelize Indians
Advocate for Indian
“History of Indian Affairs”
American Indian Mission Society
John Mason Peck
Apostle to the West
Missouri missionary
Mississippi valley Church planter
Luther Rice
Rallied support for the Judsons and started the Triennial Convention
Richard Furman
Centralization, 1st president of the TC
Francis Wayland
Church Autonomy, societal approach
Alexander Campbell
Restoration movement
Disciples of Christ
“Faith-repentance-baptism”
