Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity and a member of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, says that Jesus did not necessarily introduce the idea of rebirth, for a rebirth practice can be found throughout preliterate tribal religious groups in Australia and Africa...
Although Carter was raised in the Southern Baptist church, he consciously chose a personal relationship with God a decade...
Carter rejects efforts to circumscribe his spiritual experience by simply relegating it to the Southern Baptist tradition. He said, "I'm a human being. I'm not a packaged article that you can put in a little box and say here's a Southern Baptist...he's got to be predictable...
...said that Hamilton Jordan, Carter's national campaign director, comes from a radical New Testament background in the South. His father, Clarence Jordan, was a radical populist and Southern Baptist, who started a farm called Koinonia (the Greek New Testament word for community) in Americas, Georgia. This farm was an inter-racial co-operative group with emphasis on pacifism...
...South was the "Sahara of the Bozart"-mediocre, stupid, lethargic. So insisted Supercynic H.L. Mencken. Even Virginia, the "most civilized" state in the South, was an "intellectual Gobi or Lapland," where education "had sunk to the Baptist-seminary level; not a single contribution to human knowledge has come out of her colleges in 25 years...