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The inner testimony of the spirit: locating the coherent center of E. Y. Mullins's theology: critics from disparate theological perspectives increasingly find the theology of E. Y. Mullins inadequate for contemporary Baptists.(Edgar Young Mullins)(Essay)
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Baptist History and Heritage
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Carrell, William
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Conservative Baptist scholars have argued that Mullins's emphasis on subjective Christian experience undermines the primacy and authority of the Bible and that his emphasis on human freedom compromises the older Southern Baptist adherence to God's sovereign grace in salvation. (1) Criticism of Mullins also comes from more moderate Baptists concerned with the degree of individualism expressed in his theology. (2) "Communitarian" Baptists, in particular, contend that Mullins's theology is less representative of a healthy Christian theology than of Enlightenment individualism. Mullins's modernist conception of the competent soul lacks awareness of "the sort of community and ...