4.53 Marc Minter • Reading • “Liberty, Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State”

Episode 193

70 Min

November 17, 2025

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A historical exploration showing that Baptists long affirmed religious liberty without requiring a separation of church and state, tracing the shift in the 20th century.

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“Liberty, Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State” – Marc Minter
“Views of Individuals in Southern Baptist Congregations on Baptist Political Theology” – Lifeway Research
“The Impotence of Secular Conservatism” – R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Comparison Chart of the Baptist Faith and Message
Theme of the Month: Do the Reading: Selections in Political Theology
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Books to Read

Ecclesiology: A Study of the Churches – Edwin Charles Dargan
Baptist Political Theology – eds. Thomas Kidd, Paul Miller, & Andrew T. Walker
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State – Daniel Dreisbach
Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience – Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell
Separation of Church and State – Philip Hamburger
More Than Just a Name: Preserving Our Baptist Identity – Stan Norman
The Axioms of Religion: A New Interpretation of the Baptist Faith – E.Y. Mullins
The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement – Anthony L. Chute, Nathan A. Finn, & Michael A.G. Haykin
Demanding Liberty: An Untold Story of American Religious Liberty – Brandon J. O’Brien
Let Men Be Free: Baptist Politics in the Early United States (1776-1835) – Obbie Tyler Todd
Baptist Confessions, Covenants, and Catechisms – John A. Broadus, ed. Timothy George
Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study – James Leo Garrett
Baptist Confessions of Faith – William L. Lumpkin
Christianity & Liberalism – J. Gresham Machen
Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture – Barry Hankins

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Marc Minter

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Marc Minter

Marc Minter has served as the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Diana, in Diana, Texas, since 2014. He is married to Cassie and has two sons, Micah and Malachi. He has an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a Ph.D. student in historical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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4.53 Marc Minter • Reading • “Liberty, Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State”

Episode 193

70 Min

November 17, 2025

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