[2] The movement started in the 1980s, with the founding of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in 1987 in the United States, which stresses the complementarianism between men and women (in contrast to egalitarianism, and as opposed to feminism).
They did express worry about perceived evangelical accommodation to postmodernism and criticized churches for applying business models to ministry.
They mostly joked about their many differences on such historically difficult issues as baptism, church government, eschatology, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Specifically, he suggests that many of the New Calvinists' positions on infant baptism, covenant theology, and continuation of the gifts of the Spirit are out of step with the Reformed tradition.
[15] The document was originally endorsed by six former SBC presidents: Morris Chapman, Jimmy Draper, Paige Patterson, Bailey Smith,[16] Bobby Welch, and Jerry Vines, two seminary presidents Chuck Kelley of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary,[17] and five state executive directors (Jim Futral of Mississippi,[18] David Hankins of Louisiana,[19] Mike Procter of Alaska,[20] John Sullivan of Florida, and Bob White of Georgia).