Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was important work to do as well back home in Lynchburg, Va. Falwell met with the associate pastors who operate the huge Thomas Road Baptist Church during his many absences. He appeared as usual in his church's octagonal sanctuary to preach at the Wednesday-night prayer meeting. His message, | "Live Unto Him," was loosely based upon II Corinthians 5: 14-15. The week concluded with a particularly pleasant chore: mingling amiably with the 3,500 en- tering freshmen at Liberty University, his proudest creation...
Such a coalition depends upon whether the Evangelicals are prodded toward Fundamentalism, which could become a major ground for Protestant conflict. By far the biggest prize would be ideological leadership of the huge Southern Baptist Convention. The S.B.C. Fundamentalists last June scored their seventh and perhaps pivotal annual win in balloting on the denomination's president, re-electing Atlanta's Charles Stanley. Through presidential appointments, the well-organized right wing intends to take control of seminaries and other agencies away from moderate conservatives. Such a shift would greatly influence U.S. Protestantism...
FOOTNOTE: *Including most Churches of Christ and independent Christian churches, the Baptist Bible Fellowship (Falwell's group), other right-wing bodies and numerous unaffiliated congregations...
...protest sex channels on cable TV. The shelves of religious bookstores are filled with their social protests, in which the buzz words "secular humanism" are used to cover anything and everything the authors disapprove of. The Fundamentalists "have moved into the center of America's cultural stage," says Baptist Pastor William Hull of Shreveport, La., who is unsympathetic to them...
...Fundamentalists, strictly speaking, belong to congregations or denominations that root out any hint of liberalism. As many as 10 million members worship in wholeheartedly Fundamentalist churches.* There are several times as many Evangelicals, both inside and outside the mainline groups. The largest Evangelical body, the 14.4 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, is now facing a powerful takeover campaign by its Fundamentalist wing...