I love these newer, larger, more spectacular spaces. How sad that it largely burned down at the very end of the century.
Your reference says that "in 1887, the church left the Baptist Union because of the widening influence of theological liberalism within the Union. Spurgeon was adamant that the church would not down-grade the faith as many other churches were doing." He was definitely going against the modernist, more inclusive flow, then.
Thank you Helen. I didn't look quite deep enough. He has his own web site and followers.
http://www.spurgeon.org/misc/biopref.htm
with this quote:
Sincerely and straightforwardly he denounced error both in the Church of England and among his own Baptists. An ardent evangelical, he deplored the trend of the day toward biblical criticism.
I love these newer, larger, more spectacular spaces. How sad that it largely burned down at the very end of the century.
ReplyDeleteYour reference says that "in 1887, the church left the Baptist Union because of the widening influence of theological liberalism within the Union. Spurgeon was adamant that the church would not down-grade the faith as many other churches were doing." He was definitely going against the modernist, more inclusive flow, then.
Thank you Helen. I didn't look quite deep enough. He has his own web site and followers.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spurgeon.org/misc/biopref.htm
with this quote:
Sincerely and straightforwardly he denounced error both in the Church of England and among his own Baptists. An ardent evangelical, he deplored the trend of the day toward biblical criticism.
One person's error of course ...