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...sturdiest pulpits of Middle America stand in the 34,335 churches of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC's 11,498,613 members, making up the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, are the fabric of the now somewhat frayed Bible Belt that arcs from California to Virginia. In folklore-and partly in fact-they stand as stern exponents of a Scripture understood in literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They...
...words of outgoing SBC President W.A. Criswell, "termites" are gnawing at the group's fundamentalist foundations. Recent years have seen a growing movement away from the old Bible-thumping toward a more liberal faith-particularly among some of the SBC's seminary teachers and publications editors. The liberals have taken a progressive line not only on such issues as race and ecumenism, but above all on biblical interpretation, finally joining scholars of other denominations in doubting that the text was inspired word-for-word by God and is thereby infallible. Last year Criswell, pastor...
Playboy Debate. Any good Baptist regards the Bible as the ultimate authority, to be interpreted by each individual according to his own lights. Although the conservatives are by far the more numerous and vocal camp in the SBC, they can invoke no doctrinal discipline to block the liberals' inroads. Last week's meeting, instead of bringing the messengers together, only made their differences more glaring...
...session, the conservatives yielded ten minutes of platform time to a dozen black collegians from Denver, one of whom shouted that the SBC's ranks include members who have "castrated, murdered and raped black people." "No!" and "Lie!" countered the audience. Later, the budget for the SBC's social-action agency, the Christian life commission, went through with a 15% increase, despite conservative complaints about past ventures by the commission (including an invitation to a Playboy spokesman last March to participate in a forum on the new morality). As the week wore on, however, grass-roots resentment built...
...Harvard 5 Latin SBb Emerson A Latin S15b Emerson A Mathematics SAb (10 o'clock sections) Memorial Hall Mathematics S2b (10 o'clock section) Harvard 6 Mathematics S5b Harvard 2 Minerology S2b Mallinckrodt MB9 Music S1a New Lect. Hall Music SDb Music Bldg. 4 Philosophy SE Emerson 211 Physics SBc Memorial Hall Psychology S36 Emerson D Slavic S10b Emerson A Sociology S3a Emerson D Spanish S5b Emerson 211 Friday Evening, September 18 6.45--9.45 French SCb Memorial Hall French SDb Memorial Hall French SEb New Lect. Hall German SAb Memorial Hall German SCb New Lect. Hall Saturday Morning, September...