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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...

He devoted all of chapter 7 of the work to detailing conservative efforts at maintaining doctrinal uniformity (i.e., creedalism). During the debate over the adoption of the 2000 BFM several moderates raised some objections in an attempt to reclaim the original wording of the 1963 Preamble.25 Against these accusations Adrian Rogers, Richard Land, and R. Albert Mohler Jr. stressed that no church was required to adopt the new confession and that the Convention had a long standing policy of requiring

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