Conservative Reactions.
I. Conservative Reactions.
A. Moderate conservatives, under John Marvin Dean’s leadership, established Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, which is located in Lombard, Illinois, outside the NBC in 1913 as a reaction to the liberalism at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
B. Dean’s Second Baptist Church provided the facilities until 1920.
C. In 1919, however, Northern affiliated with the NBC and dropped Fundamentalists W. B. Riley and J. R. Straton from the advisory board.
1.For a number of years the seminary’s faculty consisted of a heterogeneous group of both liberal-backed and evangelical men. a)Carl Henry, a leading new evangelical, taught here from 1940 to 1947. b)Northern is affiliated today with the "Chicago Cluster of Theological Schools."
D. In 1925, moderate conservatives founded Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,as a reaction to the modernism at Crozer Theological Seminary.
Liberalism eventually gained control at Eastern, too, however. For example, the liberal Baptist historian, Robert G. Torbet, taught there from 1934 to 1951