Faught, Jerry

Dr. Jerry Faught received his Ph.D. in Religion from Baylor University, Waco, Texas. He is an Associate Professor of Religion at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.

Resurgence of Fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist Convention: A History From 1960 to 1979

2013 0-7734-4322-3
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) experienced an intense struggle for control of the ideological direction of its denomination in the 1960s and 1970s. This book examines how the Conservative movement within the denomination took aim at reorienting the denomination away from its perceived liberal course and toward a clear and unquestioned affirmation of biblical inerrancy.
This study investigates both the Elliott and Broadman Controversies. Since events do not take place in a vacuum, the conflicts are set in their respective historical contexts, both socio-cultural and religious. This project finds that Southern Baptists had become an increasingly diverse group theologically and socially by the 1960s and early 1970s and that the two controversies brought to the forefront doctrinal, social, and regional differences present among Southern Baptists.