Melchi I’ve just read something on the Northern Baptists and I understand that they split from the Southern ones was because of the Northern Baptists refusal to appoint slave owners as missionaries. (and the rise of moderate Baptist in Southern Baptists arose from an urge to heal the wounds of the Civil War confederate nostalgia.
Yes it does seem that the spilt in the Northern Baptists in the 1940s concerned mission – because the conservatives no longer wanted to collaborate with ‘modernists’ in the mission field so they formed their own mission society. The fundamentalist/modernist controversy is not the same as the Universalist v. ECT controversy. There may be overlaps – because everlasting hell is one of the so called ‘fundamentals’ - but it is not the same controversy.
Regarding all of the Baptists in America, they trace their ancestry back to Roger Williams of Rhode Island and he has a revered place in Baptist history of the fundamentalists, the conservatives and the modernists. He was a great man – but certainly if Dr McClymond knew enough about him he’d have to trash him soundly (because of Roger William’s attitude towards Universalists like Samuel Gorton, his beliefs in religious freedom, his belief that the Old Testament law was null and void and in hope of a new revelation in the Age of the Spirit, and, of course, the fact that his defence of religious freedom was burned by the public hangman in England at the command of a Calvinist parliament); but I don’t think Dr McClymond would be that daring.
What I’ve confirms what you’ve read obviously It’s good to know about these thing as a Brit.