Proposal Assignment

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RESEARCH PAPER: PROPOSAL EXAMPLE

Thesis

The Regular and Separate Baptists in the South differed less theologically than some have portrayed them, shared a common theological outlook and a common concern for lost sinners, but diverged in certain aspects of practice.

Outline Introduction

I. Current State of Scholarship A. The Shurden Proposal

1. “The 1980–81 Carver-Barnes Lectures” 2. Fisher Humphreys’s adaptation

B. The Broader Consensus 1. McBeth 2. Nettles 3. Bebbington

C. The Dichotomist View 1. Regular (Old Light) Baptists 2. Separate (New Light) Baptists

II. Associational Histories Tell a Tale A. Philadelphia Association

1. Celebration of additions 2. Seasons of prayer and fasting during declension 3. Sending out of itinerant preachers 4. Contact with the Sandy Creek Association 5. Evidence says–

B. Charleston Association 1. Impact of George Whitefield on FBC Charleston 2. Itinerant preachers 3. Missionary efforts among native Americans 4. Contact with the Sandy Creek Association 5. Evidence says–

C. Ketocton Association 1. Formed out of the Philadelphia Association 2. Effects of the Awakening 3. Itinerant preachers sent out 4. Contact with Separate Baptists in Virginia 5. Evidence says–

D. Kehukee Association 1. General Baptist origins

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2. “New Lights” from Philadelphia 3. Conversions and embracing of Regular Baptist Principles 4. Contact with the Sandy Creek Association 5. Evidence says–

E. Sandy Creek Association 1. Origins of the Separate Baptist movement (the Whitefield connection) 2. Planting and growth of the Sandy Creek Church 3. Contacts with Regular Baptists 4. Differences in practice and questions of irregularities 5. Evidence says–

III. Moving Toward Unity A. Questions of Doctrine

1. Confessions of faith, covenants, or neither? 2. What about Calvinism?

B. Questions of Practice 1. Nine rites vs. two 2. To rebaptize or not 3. Church order and officers 4. Powers of the association

C. Resolving Differences 1. Migration of preachers 2. Stages of unification 3. Basis for unity

Conclusion Clearly the overwhelming evidence supports Bebbington’s contention that Arminianism

as a force was spent and found wanting as the Separate and Regular Baptists swept through the

Carolinas. Cooperation also between the two groups began, perhaps with fits and starts, at a very

early date. Whitefield’s influence on both groups stands out, and Bebbington and Nettles both

argue for the influence of Jonathan Edwards on Regular Baptists.

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