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...smoldering quarrel between the Fundamentalists and moderates intensified in 1969, when the S.B.C. Sunday School Board began issuing serially the multivolume Broadman Bible Commentary. The project was established to summarize Southern Baptist thinking. The 56 theologians involved made mild use of "higher criticism" (theorizing about literary sources underlying Bible texts), and the introduction to the series undermined the concept of inerrancy. In 1970 the annual convention forced a rewrite of the program's Genesis commentary to make it more conservative...
...1970s, when a group of Houston youths were taught such modern approaches to the Bible at Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner...
Political as well as religious issues deeply divide the S.B.C. Stanley was a founder of Moral Majority, the religious-right political lobby. Honeycutt says that this movement violates the Baptist heritage of church-state separation. Another angry moderate, the Rev. James Dunn, runs the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs in Washington, sponsored by the S.B.C. and eight smaller denominations. Dunn's job may ultimately be in danger because Dunn's Baptist lobby is at odds with Fundamentalists in the S.B.C., who demand constitutional amendments on school prayer and abortion...
...world, the battle of all against all, extends from the swamps of Louisiana (populated by a tangled bestiary of paranoid deer, coons, foxes, bright-eyed, indifferent herons and fish-chomping alligators, glaring at one another like bikers on Methedrine) to the boardrooms of the Sunbelt. Thanks to a Baptist background, he also has a taste for the religious grotesque, which gets full play in Tintorettoesque machines like The Little Prince Prohibited from Polishing His Crown...
FOOTNOTE: *Presidential martini rhetoric has inflated at a pace roughly equal to that of the economy. According to former Senator Eugene McCarthy, John F. Kennedy spoke disparagingly of the "martini lunch" and 1972 Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern inveighed against the "two-martini lunch." Jimmy Carter, a no-martini Baptist, raised the critical count to three...