Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers, 74
Posted: Sunday, November 20th, 2005 5:47 pmMEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Rev. Adrian Rogers, a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and leader of a conservative takeover of the denomination, died early Tuesday in Memphis. He was 74.
His death was announced by Baptist Press News and by Rogers’ Love Worth Finding ministry.
Rogers was hospitalized earlier this month with pneumonia and cancer, his ministry’s Web site said.
Rogers was elected president in 1979 as part of the conservative takeover of the 16.3 million-member convention, second in size to the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
His election turned out to be a watershed moment for the denomination, and the group shifted dramatically to the right politically and theologically. … Read full obituary
