by Kevin Bauder | Dec 7, 2016 | Anthropology, Baptists, Church Unity, Civility, Ecclesiology, Reports, Soteriology
Some younger fundamentalists have the impression that life in the wider Evangelical world is all peace in the valley, not at all like the quarrels and spats they’ve heard about in fundamentalism. That impression is mistaken. For example, take Paige...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 24, 2016 | Church History, Church Unity, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Separation
You need to know this bit of history because of the important ecclesiological issues that were at stake. Thanks to Justin Taylor, you can. [Stott’s and his allies’] arguments took three forms: (1) Historically, they argued that the constitutional basis of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Church Unity, Ecclesiology
Not long ago Peter Leithart asked whether Protestantism had a future. Douglas Wilson didn’t like his answer. The exchange provides some valuable insight as to the nature and boundaries of the church. As Baptists, we would say some different things and say other...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 23, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Church Unity, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Local Church, Separation, Universal Church, What We're Reading
“There has been almost universal agreement that unity exists in a spiritual sense in the invisible church. Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and others ascribed to the invisible church a unity that is indivisible because of its center in the living Christ. The...
