jan 1, 1845 - Southern Baptist Convention Created
Description:
Southern Baptist Convention created from the debate over wheter slaveholders should be allowed to be ministers. A group of Alabama Baptists wrote to the Triennial Convention demanding that slaveholders be given equal church standing, then broke off when their demands were rejected. (Continuity: debates over slaveholders' standing within the church continued to be an issue)Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1845
Now
~ 180 years ago