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The Making of the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message is unavailable, but you can change that!

Questions regarding the orthodoxy of Dale Moody and Ralph Elliott propelled the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) toward a re-evaluation of its doctrinal statement, the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM). The SBC adopted this document in 1925 under the leadership of E. Y. Mullins when faced by the challenge of modernism. This dissertation argues that the 1962 Committee on Baptist Faith and Message...

pertaining to the Committee on Statement of Faith and Message that was organized in 1962 and charged with the task of reviewing the 1925 Statement with a possible view to revising or replacing it. The Millard Berquist Files, housed at the library at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri, contain valuable materials related specifically to the Genesis Controversy and Ralph Elliott and will be examined in regard to this controversy. What will come to the fore is the fact that
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