Events Leading Up To The Controversy
Several twentieth century events in the SBC helped set the stage for this conflict. Some conservatives and fundamentalists interpreted these as harbingers of liberalism at one extreme, and "neo-orthodoxy" at the other, creeping into the historically conservative denomination.
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