Is 83 year old President Carter the First of the Emergent Christian breed? For 30 years Carter has tried to show a concern for enviromentalisim, poverty and other Christian world views, all within the very narrow confines of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Sadly Carter has been forced to seperate from SBC over things like the quote below

Patterson (current SBC president) said the current split boiled down to "an epistemological question: How do you know what you know you say is true?"

"We believe that we know what we know because God has flawlessly revealed to us in the Bible what his will and thought and purpose is," he said. "They do not believe that."

Carter, who did graduate work in nuclear physics, doesn't necessarily disagree. "There's no doubt in my mind that the Bible was written by, almost exclusively, men, who were limited in their knowledge of science." Today's biblical literalists, he said, "might believe that the universe was created in 4004 BC. I don't believe that."

The Los Angeles Times has a fabulous article on Carter and the Southern baptist's here

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