Baptist Renewal Initiative

[Jerome]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/brandondsmith/2017/03/new-initiative-center-baptist-renewal

This group of men and women—serving in churches and institutions across the country

thinks that

Baptist worship could benefit from incorporating historic practices such as lectionary readings, the liturgical calendar, corporate confession of sin, the assurance of pardon, the recitation of scriptural and historic prayers (especially the Lord’s Prayer), and the corporate confession of the faith (expressed in the ecumenical creeds and other confessional documents).

 

[Rob_BW]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/brandondsmith/2017/03/new-initiative-center-baptist-renewal


thinks that

Yikes. I don't think it's time to forget our Separatist roots and throw on a surplice just yet.

 

[Revmitchell]

Not going to happen

 

[Jerome]

These folks are well connected.


Center for Baptist Renewal Fellows include:

Timothy George, Michael Haykin, Nathan Finn, and Stephen Presley

Timothy George is Dean of Beeson Divinity School

Michael Haykin is Professor of Church History, SBTS

Nathan Finn is Dean of the School of Theology, Union University

Stephen Presley is Associate Professor of Church History, SWBTS

 

[Jerome]

Quite a few pastors as well, and professors from SBTS, SWBTS, MBTS, NOBTS, SWBTS, Boyce, CBU, OBU, etc.:

www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/fellows

 

[Jerome]

More stuff from their manifesto:

We believe that Baptists have much to contribute as well as much to receive in the great collection of traditions that constitute the holy catholic church.

We encourage the ongoing affirmation, confession, and catechetical use of the three ecumenical creeds and the scriptural insights of the seven ecumenical councils. We believe these confessional documents express well what Thomas Oden called the “consensual tradition”—the deposit of faith taught in Holy Scripture and received by the church throughout space and time.

 

[Jerome]

Rising stars in the SBC have signed on, such as Christian George and Amy Carter Whitfield .

Christian George is Curator of the Spurgeon Library at MBTS and Assistant Professor of Historical Theology:

www.patheos.com/blogs/thoughtlife/2015/06/on-joining-the-faculty-of-midwestern-seminary

"I am very excited by the scholarship Christian George is producing....Christian looks to be the historian par excellence of our generation" —Owen Strachan

Amy Carter Whitfield is on staff at SEBTS; you may have seen her on stage last year at the SBC:

www.converse.edu/community-news/politics-grad-shaking-tree-first-female-parliamentarian

Amy Carter Whitfield is breaking ground for women as the first female parliamentarian for the Southern Baptist Convention

 

[Jerome]

Baptist Renewal Fellow Michael Haykin of SBTS tells meeting of Founders Calvinist faction that Southern Baptist churches are "flooded with dementia":

http://mbcpathway.com