Word: broadman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nearer, My God, to Thee. In 1966 the Methodist Church hopes to publish its first new hymnal in 31 years; more than one-fourth of the songs will be entirely new. The Lutherans revised their hymnal in 1958, and the Southern Baptists in 1956; the Baptists' publishing house, Broadman Press, plans to issue a new hymnal in 1964 for use by evangelical churches...
Sense of Shame. The Baptist-owned Broadman Press had interpreted the conference's resolutions as an order not to publish a second edition of the book, and the immediate reason for dismissal was Elliott's refusal to promise that he would not seek another publisher. But the real disagreement was over the right of seminaries to question doctrine if serious scholarship makes it questionable. A Midwestern faculty member remarked: "There is a very low morale as a result of what has happened. I would call it a sense of shame. This kind of thing gives another professor nowhere...
Last summer the Baptist-run Broadman Press published Elliott's The Message of Genesis, an exegetical study of some of the more cautious judgments of other Protestant Biblical scholarship; for example, that the Flood covered only a few miles of the Middle East rather than the entire world, and that Adam might well be a symbolic term for all mankind rather than a specific human being. "This sort of rationalistic criticism." rumbled Houston Pastor K. Owen White, "can lead only to further confusion, unbelief, deterioration and ultimate disintegration of a great New Testament denomination." But not every Baptist preacher...