Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 1999

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 1999

Change and stability.
January 1, 1999... The winter 1999 issue of Baptist History and Heritage represents both significant changes and stability. I suppose one could say that changes have been made to stay the same. About eighteen months ago, the Southern Baptist Historical Society...

1999 Southern Baptist Historical Society annual meeting to be held at William Jewell College.
January 1, 1999... The SBHS will hold its annual meeting May 26-28, 1999 on the campus of William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri. William Jewell will be celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary. At this time plans are being made for the program and will be...

Fire in my bones: the prophetic preaching of Martin Luther King Jr.
January 1, 1999... Thirty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., historians are beginning to explore his life and work from a variety of perspectives. As usually happens with famous persons after their deaths, within a few decades, the...

The American Baptist Convention and the civil rights movement: rhetoric and response.
January 1, 1999... This article is dedicated to my wife, the Reverend Carol Holtz-Martin, who as a teenager had the courage to canvass her neighborhood on behalf of an open housing ordinance. From 1950 through 1972, those Baptists in the North with ties to...

Dying from the neck up": Southern Baptist resistance to the civil rights movement.
January 1, 1999... In February 1956, almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling declaring segregation unconstitutional, Wallie Amos Criswell, pastor of Southern Baptists' largest congregation and arguably Southern Baptists'...

A theology for racism: Southern Fundamentalists and the civil rights movement.
January 1, 1999... Scarcely anyone expected it. For more than fifty years evangelicals kept studiously aloof from American politics. They sang hymns and tended to souls, but left the burden of legislation and social policy to their more worldly counterparts in...

John Clifford and open church membership: the ecclesiology behind the policy.
January 1, 1999... Baptists have traditionally waved high the banner of soul liberty. Soul liberty allows individuals to decide for themselves what they believe on matters of doctrine--irrespective of church or priestly tenets. Historically, soul liberty has been...

Istoriya Baptizma (a History of the Baptists).
January 1, 1999... Edited by Sergey V. Sannikov. Odessa: Odessa Theological Seminary, "Bogomyslie," 1996. 496 pp. This work is a rather unusual composite work in the Russian language that incorporates scholarship from both the West and East. The first three...

Heirs of the Reformation: the Story of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Europe.
January 1, 1999... By Hugh Dunton, et al., eds. Grantham, England: The Stanborough Press, 1997. 274 pp. One of the growing religious movements of American origin with a world-wide impact is the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Although small in comparison with...

Religious Liberty on Trial: Hanserd Knollys--Early Baptist Hero.
January 1, 1999... By Muriel James. Franklin: Providence House Publishers, 1997. 204 pp. Unlike many other Christian denominations, Baptists have no one individual who stands at the roots of the denomination from which the group draws its name. There is no...

By the Grace of God: Memoirs and Recollections of an Alabama Baptist.
January 1, 1999... By A. Earl Potts. Franklin: Providence House Publishers, 1997. 256 pp. Surveying the recent decades of Southern Baptist life is not always a pleasant task. To a certain extent, our view of the recent past in Southern Baptist history has...

The Rise of Baptist Republicanism.
January 1, 1999... Oran P. Smith, New York and London: New York University Press, 1997. 212 pp. The thesis of The Rise of Baptist Republicanism is "The Republican party and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are not only in firm alliance, they are...

Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith.
January 1, 1999... Spirituality" has become a buzz word in recent years. In his foreword to Foster's newest work, Martin Marty notes the difference between a slippery, self-promoted kind of spirituality and a rooted, anchored kind. Foster's newest book clearly...

Southern Baptist Historical Society.
January 1, 1999... In summary, 1998 was a good year for the SBHS. Unofficial income (contributions, memberships, sale of products, endowment, etc.) was $100,622.74, almost $12,000 over budget. The endowment fund, including all accounts, ended the year totaling...

Charles Deweese named Associate Director of SBHS.
January 1, 1999... The Southern Baptist Historical Society has recently appointed Dr. Charles Deweese to the position of Associate Director. His primary assignment will include development and membership responsibilities. He also will provide leadership in...

News notes.
January 1, 1999... Merrill M. Hawkins Jr. This issue welcomes Merrill Hawkins Jr., assistant professor, department of religion, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee, as the new editor of BH&H. Karen Bullock, assistant professor of church history,...