One knew instinctively when the bounds of this consensus had been transgressed. Thus in the controversy surrounding the forced departure of Crawford Howell Toy from Southern Seminary in 1879, both Toy himself and the colleagues who bid him a tearful adieu were all aware, as Toy himself put it, that he “no longer stood where most of his brethren did.”8 Erosion of Theological Consensus The history of the Baptist movement in the twentieth century could be largely written as the story of the erosion