I am in San Antonio, Texas right now attending the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. If anything of interest happens, I will be blogging about it.
A couple of items will be of interest to many of my readers. Dr. Jerry Johnson will be hosting his daily radio program from here at the convention, and he has scheduled a couple of interesting debates to take place at the Criswell College booth tomorrow.
The first debate will be at 1pm between Dr. Mark Coppenger and Dr. Danny Akin over the issue of Calvinism. Dr. Coppenger will be arguing in favor of the Calvinist position, and Dr. Akin will present an opposing position.
The second debate will be at 5pm between Dr. Russell Moore and Pastor Dwight McKissic over the issue of the charismatic gift of speaking in tongues. Pastor McKissic will be arguing a continuationist position, and Dr. Moore will present an opposing position.
If you are at the convention in San Antonio, please come see the debates live at 1pm and 5pm. If you are not in San Antonio, then you can listen to the debates at 5pm on Monday and Tuesday on KCBI Dallas (click here for the live stream).
Is Moore vs McKissic a fair fight? I don’t know McKissic that well, but putting a pastor up aganst a professional theologian does not strike me as an even contest. But I would pay big money and fly to Vegas to see Moore vs. Storms!!!
Denny,
These sound like good debates, but isn’t Dr. Akin a four-point Calvinist? Unless Coppenger and Akin are going to discuss the extent of Christ’s atonement, then I’m not sure that their time together would be much of a debate.
“But I would pay big money and fly to Vegas to see Moore vs. Storms!!!”
Or Moore vs Craig Keener or Max Turner (even though they aren’t SBC they are Baptist)!!
Are these debates going to be recorded and downloadable? Are these debates actually part of the annual meeting? If so, these guys are really sports.
I see above that Dr. Akin is a 4 pointer ( I had always though that he was a 5 pointer).
Is Dr. Coppenger a 5 pointer? I assume so since he is arguing in favor of the Calvinist position, but just wanted to make sure.
[...] Oh, let me link you to some of the resolutions in case you are not familiar with some that have already been made available on the Internet. Tom Ascol’s regenerate church membership, Wade Burleson’s love for fellow Christians, Bart Barber’s role of BF&M, Ben Cole’s on gluttony, C.B. Scott on rescuing victimized children, Marty Duren on pastoral longevity and local church ministry, and Robin Foster on glossolalia and private prayer languages. I also got word that Dr. Coppenger is going to debate Dr. Akin on Calvinism at 1:00 p.m. today, and Dr. Moore is going to debate Dwight McKissic today at 5:00 p.m. on private prayer languages. For more information on that, go here. Last, Drs. David Dockery and Timothy George are distributing 14,000 copies of their booklet entitled “Building Bridges” which is a compilation of their messages from this years’ Baptist Identity Conference to all the messengers in San Antonio. I took notes from both these messages (for Dockery, go here; for George, go here). I believe the brightest future of the SBC lies in the direction and leadership of these two men. [...]
Are these two “debates” archived anywhere? I missed them.
Wow, it’s like getting an Amyraldian and an Infralapsarian to argue the order of decrees! LOL
Hmmm, I’m actually interested in that. On the other hand, it says something if Dr. Akin, as an Amryaldian/4 Pointer, can accurately present the opposing side…unlike many an anti-Calvinist pastor of late who can’t seem to do that.
[...] Denny Burk » Debates at the Southern Baptist Convention [...]
Can anyone get me a copy of the pamphlet by Dockery and George. Timothy George is my favourite SBC theologian.
[...] Several readers have been asking if the audio of the SBC debates on Calvinism and Tongues will be available via the web. The answer to that question is yes. I will post the two debates on the JJL podcast site as soon as possible. Hopefully, I will have time to post the tongues debate between McKissic and Moore as early as today. [...]
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