ABOUT THE EPISODE

Listen in as David Schrock & Stephen Wellum interview Marc Minter on his Longform essay, "Liberty Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State"

Timestamps

• 00:48 – Intro
• 05:52 – Marc Minter and His Academic Aspirations
• 10:30 – The State of Political Theology in the SBC
• 14:48 – Influences on Political Theology
• 19:00 – The Significance of Everson v. Board of Education 1947
• 21:42 – How This Case Shaped Subsequent Generations’ Worldviews
• 24:27 – Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists
• 30:10 – How Much Did Jefferson’s Views Change Between 1776-1802?
• 33:37 – The Distinction Between Reformation and Enlightment Traditions
• 37:55 – The Two Notions of the Term ‘Separation’
• 43:05 – Have We Adopted an Anabaptist Tradition of Church & State?
• 45:47 – E.Y. Mullins’ Views on the State
• 49:10 – Mullins’ Interjection into the Baptist Faith & Message
• 58:48 – What Should Pastors Do In Light of All This?
• 1:04:24 – Readings for Baptist Political Theology
• 1:06:10 – Outro

Resources to Click

• “Liberty, Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State” – Marc Minter
• “Views of Individuals in Southern Baptist Congregations on Baptist Political Theology” – Lifeway Research
• “The Impotence of Secular Conservatism” – R. Albert Mohler Jr.
• Comparison Chart of the Baptist Faith and Message
• Theme of the Month: Do the Reading: Selections in Political Theology
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• Ecclesiology: A Study of the Churches – Edwin Charles Dargan
• Baptist Political Theology – eds. Thomas Kidd, Paul Miller, & Andrew T. Walker
• Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State – Daniel Dreisbach
• Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience – Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell
• Separation of Church and State – Philip Hamburger
• More Than Just a Name: Preserving Our Baptist Identity – Stan Norman
• The Axioms of Religion: A New Interpretation of the Baptist Faith – E.Y. Mullins
• The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement – Anthony L. Chute, Nathan A. Finn, & Michael A.G. Haykin
• Demanding Liberty: An Untold Story of American Religious Liberty – Brandon J. O’Brien
• Let Men Be Free: Baptist Politics in the Early United States (1776-1835) – Obbie Tyler Todd
• Baptist Confessions, Covenants, and Catechisms – John A. Broadus, ed. Timothy George
• Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study – James Leo Garrett
• Baptist Confessions of Faith – William L. Lumpkin
• Christianity & Liberalism – J. Gresham Machen
• Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture – Barry Hankins