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Sacralism

Discussion in 'Baptist History' started by Squire Robertsson, Jul 25, 2017.

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  1. Squire Robertsson

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    The Baptist distinctive of Separation of Church and State grows out of a rejection of sacralism. The definition:
    By the word “sacral” which we will be using frequently and which we request the reader to impress on his mind, we mean “bound together by a common religious loyalty.” By sacral society, we mean society held together by a religion to which all the members of that society are committed. ​

    can be found at pp. 22-23, The Reformers and Their Stepchildren by Leonard Verduin, Baker, 1980.
     
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    What is your understanding of separation of church and state? The phrase itself is uniquely American, rooted in the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. While Congress cannot establish a state religion, nowhere does the Constitution, or the Bible for that matter, preclude the Church from involving itself in society, whether public or private. Falwell's Moral Majority was a distinctly Baptist foray into politics and public policy.
     
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    A true story of my wife's (Evangelical Christian-Baptist) family's experience upon arrival in San Francisco back in 1990. They came from the Soviet Union as penniless religious refugees under the same terms as the Soviet Jews. Having minimal support in San Francisco, they turned to the County Welfare agency. County Welfare didn't at the time have any Russian speakers on staff. So, her family was advised to see the Jewish Welfare Agency and the Russian Orthodox Relief. JWA (at the time) said, "We can't help you. You're not Jewish." ROR said, "If you're not Orthodox, you're not Russian."
    The last is a sacralist statement.

    Yes, the Moral Majority, its supporters, and follow ons when in full throat take on a sacralist tone. And it's one I believe we need to carefully avoid. The US religious scene is no longer simply divided among the Protestants\Baptists, the RCC\EOC, the Jews, the Unitarians, and the Agnostics\Atheists.
     
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    The way the Church should venture into politics and public policy is by boldly preaching the Word of God from the pulpit. George Whitefield laid the moral seeds of the American Revolution before Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill. The Church loses its power when it uses God's word as a pretense for political change alone.
     
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