The humanist "issue" started with Gannet's "Things Commonly Believed Today Amongst Us" and progressed to reject theism in the voices of Deitrich and Reese, both of whom were read and commented on earlier.
Reese started as a SBC preacher. Wowzers!
Deitrich lost a heresy trial due to his liberalism. Yikes!
I can definitely see how this movement, concerned first and foremost with the welfare of man found a voice at this time and in this faith. It seems to go along well with what was going on at the time and newfound freedom (e.g. distance from Boston) that the west permitted.
The last part of the chapter is a critique of Humanism is a weak objection based on the absence of God and sin supported by people who have more or less been lost to history.
Note on the fellowship movement from page 156.
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