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One of the largest baptist theological seminary institutes in the world. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary provides students with ministry experience and hands-on education.
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Through theological education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will seek to equip servants for the church to influence Texas, the region, the nation, and the world for the cause of Christ and the Kingdom of God.
Explore bachelor, masters, and doctoral programs at Southwestern Seminary, a Southern Baptist institution committed to the Bible and the Baptist Faith and Message. Find the degree and ministry focus that fits your calling and prepare for any field of ministry.
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary consists of 6 different schools including Theology, Educational Ministries, Church Music & Worship, Evangelism & Missions, Women's Programs, and Scarborough College.
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary received its charter on March 14, 1908, but remained on Baylor's Waco campus until the summer of 1910, when the board accepted an offer made by Fort Worth citizens for a campus site and enough funds to build the first building.
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- What’s The Controversy?
- If I’m Not A Southern Baptist, Why Should I Care About This Debate?
- What Is The Document and How Was It introduced?
- Who Signed The Statement?
- What Is The Impetus For The document?
- What Is The SBC’s Official View on Calvinism?
- How Many Southern Baptists Are Calvinists?
- If The Signers Reject Calvinist Soteriology, Do They Embrace Arminianism?
- What Are The Primary Criticisms of The document?
Two weeks ago a group of current and former Southern Baptist leaders signed and posted a statementwhich attempts to draw a clear line between Calvinism and what they call the “traditional Southern Baptist” of soteriology. The document has attracted a considerable number of supporters and critics and sparked a vocal debate about the role of Reformed...
Because the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the largest Protestant denomination in America, both the controversy and the debates about Calvinism are likely to spill into other non-reformed denominations and parachurch ministries and have an influence on the larger evangelical community.
On May 30, the original signers of the statement, titled “A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation,” posted the document on the website SBC Today. As SBC Today notes, the format and subject matter of the statement is similar to that of the Together for the Gospel statement, which was signed or affirme...
The document was originally endorsed by six former SBC presidents (Morris Chapman, Jimmy Draper, Paige Patterson, Bailey Smith, Bobby Welch, and Jerry Vines), two seminary presidents (Chuck Kelley of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and former SBC president Paige Patterson, who now serves as the president of the denomination’s largest semin...
Although interest in Calvinism has been growing within the SBC for almost 30 years, the issue has become more divisive within the denomination over the past decade. In a blog interviewlast October, Frank Page, President and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, identified the theological divide of Calvinism and non-Calv...
According to the denomination’s website, “The Southern Baptist Convention has not taken an official stance on either Calvinism or Arminianism.”
Surveys by LifeWay Christian Resources and the North American Mission Board foundthat about 10 percent of Southern Baptist leaders identify themselves as five-point Calvinists, while about 30 percent of recent seminary graduates identify themselves as such.
Although the views expressed in the document are largely indistinguishable (see update) from classical Arminianism, many of the signers appear to reject or avoid that label, preferring to simply be classified as “Traditional Southern Baptist soteriology.” The document itself does not use the term Arminian. As Albert Mohler, president of Southern Ba...
Critics of the documents—including both Calvinists and Arminians—have presented three general criticisms: 1. The document’s primary argument relies on an appeal to the masses rather than careful exegesis of Scripture —The statement’s primary contention for rejecting Calvinism appears to be based on the fact that the majority of Southern Baptists ha...
