Word: honeycutt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern Baptists agree that the Bible is the only basis for faith, but the two camps differ over how literally the Scriptures should be interpreted. In the Broadman series, for example, sections contributed by President Roy Honeycutt of the S.B.C. seminary in Louisville contend that substantial portions of Exodus were written centuries after Moses, that Moses probably had an "inner experience" of God instead of seeing an actual burning bush, and that the Bible stories of the plagues of Pharaoh or the Prophet Elisha's miracles may well have been reshaped or exaggerated in transmission. That...
...after Stanley was elected to head the S.B.C. for the first time, Honeycutt declared a "holy war" on the Fundamentalists. He was joined by ( President Russell Dilday of the seminary in Fort Worth, who says the Stanley forces are dishonest and use "blatant non-Christian tactics." Among them: tape-recording lectures of seminary teachers to hunt for "heresy...
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...
...best-looking guy in baseball? When the Baltimore Orioles came to play Seattle, the matter was put before the supreme judges of player pulchritude: the Mariners' wives. The surprising result: a home-town favorite, Pitcher Rick Honeycutt, placed second to Orioles Pitcher Jim Palmer in a ranking of baseball's top ten hunks. The criteria for the contest were a little unclear, observed Debbie Honeycutt, wife of the runner-up. "We weren't sure whether they wanted it from the neck up, the neck down or both." Palmer modestly admits his ads for Jockey briefs may have...