Autor: Malcolm B. Yarnell

The basic question, ‘Where did Baptists come from and why?’ has two camps that offer differing explanations: (1) the English Separatist camp produced the ministries of foundational Baptists, John Smy …

The Holy Spirit and the Lake of Fire! What does the Spirit have to do with God’s final judgment? The Holy Spirit and God’s judgment upon sin are not two topics that are often connected, but to unders …

Baptists are not often thought of as leading theologians and practitioners of worship. But forgotten in history is one crucial fact: the Baptist tradition formed out of a desire to worship God purely …

Challenges to religious liberty are increasingly common today as historical Christianity comes into conflict with a new, secular orthodoxy. In this thoroughly revised second edition of First Freedom, …

The Formation of Christian Doctrine is a high-level academic study of the history of Christian doctrinal development. The book distinguishes at length between the scholarly term inventio (making expl …

A recent conference at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary featured speakers addressing topics set forth in the article on The Church in the Southern Baptist Conventions Baptist Faith and Messa …

Is the Trinity biblical? Is it necessary to affirm God as three persons in one being? Despite a renewed interest in the Trinity in recent years, many Christians, including most evangelicals, either r …

James Leo Garrett, Jr. has been called ‘the last of the gentlemen theologians’ and ‘the dean of Southern Baptist theologians.’ In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett, Jr., 1950-2015, the read …

While the Southern Baptist Convention has so often been a step behind on the issue of race since its formation, there was still light shining in the darkness: a group of biblically faithful men and w …