The Importance of Absolute Propositional Truth Claims

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The seminary has had a very long and turbulent history, a really joyful one as well. There was a theological shift at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from a confessional adherence to a liberal theology that mirrored Maitian's defining conflict in the PCUSA and at Princeton in the 1920s. Half of the faculty came out of Princeton in terms of their theological education. And I was hired to bring it back to its confessional identity.

In the 1980s the Southern Baptist Convention found itself at a crossroads. While many of its churches were faithfully teaching biblical Christianity, the seminaries where its pastors were trained had been immersed in theological liberalism for decades.

In a lot of stories, this is where the split would occur. But this time something different happened. Instead of dividing, a group of courageous Christians decided to change the equation. They came up with an unprecedented plan to turn Southern Seminary from liberal theology, back to its confessional roots.

Politics. Technology. Identity. Power. Science. Everything seems to be changing. So why not faith?

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