First, JPierce; thanks for chiming in. The conversation is metastasizing in several places today and I don't have time to cover all the nuances but I will cherrypick at the week goes on.
Johnny, I do commend to you and to David McKenzie who teaches the Church state course at Berry every other year, and all the Progressive Baptist forces in the Rome area, the Giberson and Stephens Book The Anointed. With me you can learn from it too. I hope Baptists Today will do a feature on the book soon, and as I have said before great opportunity for Tony Cartledge to bone up on the book and interview one of the authors when they come to Wingate in March.
But now focussing on one apsect of this conversation I am having with Sandy.
The Anointed, in a grand two page riff on Al Mohler, bout page 246 of the book, spotllight Alan Wolfe's online piece in the Atlantic of a few years ago.
Bottom line, when Mohler and Nelson Price overreach into the world of Liberal arts, they speak "gibberish". Read the book to do justice to the assertion.
Order a copy from your local Barnes and Noble. You are not obligated to buy but it would be a shame if there aren't two copies of the book already in the Berry, Mercer, Baylor and Samford Libraries.
To whet your appetite--and I am expecting Gene Scarborough to read all four installments of this piece before he utters the first word in response
-- here is the Link of the Year for thinking Baptists; and a big Shout Out to Nelson Price and his Regime at Shorter:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/is ... /wolfe.htm