Evangelicals have responded to logical positivist historiography in various ways. Thus, an exploration of these several different evangelical approaches to historiography needs to be done. Considering these positions, it will be argued that an evangelical historiography for use inside the church should look different from an evangelical historiography for use outside the church. That is, … Read more
Baptists are committed to local church autonomy, which flourishes in contexts free of governmental oversight or state-church structures. America was founded on such religious liberty, and Baptists in America have historically fought to preserve it. Yet, what happens when one person’s religious liberty infringes on another’s civil liberties? George W. Truett specifically warned against the … Read more
For the past two centuries, ecclesiastical historians have cited the Anglo-Irish clergyman and Plymouth Brethren pioneer, John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) as the mastermind behind the septarian dispensational arrangement of history. However, more than a century before Darby presented a dispensational schema replete with different economies related to the different peoples of God, as he perceived … Read more