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Issues in Baptist Polity

Spring 2004, Vol. 2, No. 1

Table of Contents

Editorial	1
Articles
Voices from the Past; Voices for the Pew: History of Support of the Direct Linkage Between Trustees and the SBC Churches Ergun Mehmet Caner	6
Baptist Ecclesiology: A Faithful Application of New Testament Principles Daryl C. Cornett	22
Hierarchy in the Church? Instruction from the Pastoral Epistles Concerning Elders and Overseers Benjamin L. Merkle	45
Why Baptist Elders is Not an Oxymoron Phil A. Newton	63
The African American Baptist Pastor and Church Government: The Myth of the Dictator James Jenkins	74
The Role of the Business Meeting in a Healthy Change Process Steve Echols	87
None Dare Call It Treason: Is an Inclusivist a Paul Revere or a Benedict Arnold? Ken Keathley	101
Book Reviews	115

Editor-in-Chief
Charles S. Kelley

Executive Editor
Steve W. Lemke

Editor
R. Stanton Norman

Book Reviews Editors
Robert Stewart
Charles Quarles

BCTM Fellow
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The Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry is published semiannually by the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry, a ministry sponsored by the New Orleans Theological Seminary. Spring 2005, Vol.2, No. 1. Copyright ©2004.

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