Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...
...complains that the modern church microphone is "a gadget of the devil, it's bugging me," Grey insists that "spineless and convictionless preaching is contaminating the land" and that Baptists must beware of becoming "ritualistic, formal, cold and dead, like so many other decadent denominations." He characterizes Southern Baptism as "a healthy, wealthy young lady," wooed by ecumenicalism on one side, nondenominationalism on the other. "These ambitious 'Lotharios' are making eyes at us. But we have not, cannot and will not even drop our handkerchief...
Resurgence After Disaster. Both Northern and Southern Baptists share the basic Baptist tenets: the supreme authority of Scripture, baptism by immersion, the autonomy of the individual soul before God. The split between them began with the issue of slavery; the Southern Baptist Conference was founded in 1845, after a Northern majority of Baptists had ruled against missionaries' owning slaves. During the Civil War the Southern Baptists evangelized fervently among Confederate soldiers, financed their foreign missions in part by blockade-running cotton exports to England...
...Until well after World War I, the Southern Baptist trademark seemed to be high-decibel evangelism and opposition to the Pope, Darwin, smoking, dancing and drinking. Between the enactment of Prohibition and the 1928 defeat of Al Smith, Southern Baptism went through some of its rowdiest moments. Some memorably colorful but questionable leaders appeared -and in a denomination without central authority, where each church has complete local autonomy, no one could say whether or not they spoke for Southern Baptism. There was, for instance, J. Frank Norris, a Fort Worth Baptist preacher ("the Texas tornado"), who killed a political...
...long ago, the Christian Century persuasively summed up Southern Baptism thus: "There are some striking inconsistencies. Fervent for missionary work among peoples of all races, it yet has to come to terms with the racial problems in its own dooryard. Pouring millions of dollars into education, it yet has made no effort to recommend ministerial stand ards to its cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged...