Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baptist Feud...
...many-volumed histories that caused much of the sag in Victorian bookshelves have largely disappeared, but at least one U.S. historian still prefers to see his craft write large. He is Yale University's Kenneth Scott Latourette, 78, a precise, untiring Baptist minister, who has just overseen the publication of his 568-page The Twentieth Century Outside Europe (Harper & Row: $8.50), the fifth and final volume of a series entitled Christianity in a Revolutionary...
...professor at the Yale Divinity School in 1921. Between classes, Latourette squeezed in an impressive variety of nonacademic chores: he was one of the founding fathers of the World Council of Churches, served as president of such divergent organizations as the American Historical Association and the American Baptist Convention...
Golden String. What worries many professors in Baptist seminaries is that they are as far from the conference's stated position on the Bible as Elliott is. Yet, says one seminarian, "officially we still believe the Bible was let down on a golden string." Like Elliott, they are disturbed that Baptists "say we're completely free, yet insist on conformity...
...Southern Baptist President Herschel Hobbs insists, "We are a people who grant to every individual the right to interpret the Scriptures as he is led by the Holy Spirit. We have no creed. The trustees thought the book was the center of the problem, and simply wanted it withheld until everything died down." In the seminaries, everything is not likely to die down. "Many of our lay people and our students are hungering to grapple with some of the deeper issues of our existence," says Elliott. "We just can't deny the validity of the quest any longer...