Are Southern Baptists Inerrantists?
Fundamentalists say that most Southern Baptists are inerrantists, but that certain professors are at odds with the people in the pew. Dr. Clark Pinnock, a conservative Baptist who now teaches theology in Canada , makes a convincing argument that moderate Baptist scholars were never far removed from the Biblical theology of the rank-and-file church members. Pinnock taught at New Orleans Seminary from 1965 until 1969 and was one of Paige Pattersons favorite seminary professors. He was a fiery advocate of roughly the position now held by SBC Fundamentalists. Although Pinnock shifted his position on inerrancy in the 1970s,[53] leaders of the nondenominational inerrancy movement still claim him as one of their own. At the 1987 inerrancy conference, Pinnock said he believed Southern Baptists typical approach to the Bible is not inerrancy in the strictest sense. Rather, it is what he called simple Biblicism. Simple biblicism, he said, is a view that most evangelicals and Baptists hold, whethe
