Slavery, not theology, caused the 1845 Baptist schism.

Evidence

After decades of regional tensions at the Triennial Conventions, where Baptists gathered to coordinate their church and missions work in the early eighteen hundreds, Baptists in the South brought the issue of the compatibility of slaveholding and Christianity to a head. … They received a swift and blunt reply from the board: “If any one [sic] should offer himself as a missionary, having slaves, and should insist on retaining them as his property, we could not appoint him.” Leaving no doubt where they stood, they concluded, “One thing is certain: we can never be a party to any arrangement that would imply approbation of slavery.” — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 18

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Southern Baptist Convention was founded specifically to defend slaveholding Christianity. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 17; A Southern Baptist minister architecturally founded a denomination over slavery — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 104; Northern Baptists forced the slavery conflict when they barred slaveholding missionaries in 1844 — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 18 (+1 more)