What is the relationship between Southern Baptists and evangelicals? Are Southern Baptists evangelicals? In Southern Baptist circles, I've often heard Baptists quickly distance themselves from evangelicalism because of the boundaries present there. These Baptists, for example, do not want to be forced into evangelical understanding of the scriptures. These Southern Baptists felt that evangelicalism was too conservative.
Curiously, I have heard evangelicals argue the same point (that Southern Baptists were not evangelicals) but for the opposite reason. Southern Baptists, they believe, fit best in the Fundamentalist, not evangelical, camp. In other words, whereas some Baptists avoid evangelicalism because it is too conservative, some evangelicals believe that Southern Baptists are too conservative (i.e. Fundamentalist) to belong in the evangelical camp.
Is this not odd? I welcome explanations or thoughts on the matter.
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