Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2000

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2000

Editorial.
January 1, 2000... As if the year 2000 has not been the cause of enough conversation, Baptist History and Heritage will use the start of the new century (or the end of the old) as an occasion to reflect. Beginning with this issue, BH&H will reflect, in selected...

The society's name: asset or liability? An executive note.
January 1, 2000... Since 1938, the Southern Baptist Historical Society has had that name and no other. Through World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm, the name has persisted. Across the careers of George W. Truett and W. A. Criswell, Duke...

Baptists and their theology.
January 1, 2000... It is appropriate, as they approach the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of their denomination, for Baptists to review their theological legacy. In this article, our review will be of three-quarters of that history. But is there...

Baptists and neo-evangelical theology.
January 1, 2000... From the 1940s to the 1970s, neo-evangelical theology was the most important conservative theological movement in North America. Led by such able thinkers as E. J. Carnell, Paul King Jewett, Carl F. H. Henry, Harold Lindsell, Millard Erickson,...

Baptist contributions to liberalism.
January 1, 2000... Looking at what has happened among Baptists, especially Baptists in the South, during the past two decades, many readers may expect a very short article. Much more, they will assume, could be written about Baptist contributions to liberalism's...

Baptists and liberation theology: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
January 1, 2000... Following Jesus is always relative to the context in which the following is done. It is not the same to follow Jesus in industrialized, "Christian" Europe as it is to follow Jesus in impoverished, predominantly Islamic Bangladesh. Some groups...

Baptists and liberation theology in South America.
January 1, 2000... South America in pre-Hispanic times was dominated by the Inca culture (Peru), with a tendency to expand into the Inca Empire (or Tahuantinsuyo in the Quichua language). Towards the North (Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela), the cultures it met...

Conversing in Christian style: toward a Baptist theological method for the postmodern context (1).
January 1, 2000... The closing two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by spirited theological engagement among theologians in North America who either speak unabashedly as Baptists or who, while writing for a wider audience, are nevertheless...

Baptists and baptism--a British perspective (1).
January 1, 2000... The purpose of this paper is to survey twentieth-century British Baptist (2) baptismal theology by means of a study of the major influences on its development. The development of baptismal theology, though well documented, is often overlooked...

It's never been easier to get a good grade at DBU!(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Mike Williams, Dallas Baptist University, has done a great favor to his students and to the Southern Baptist Historical Society. Mike is committed to Baptist history and to teaching his students about that history. No better source for...

The Encyclopedia of Christianity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... Volume 1, A-D. Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch et al. Translated and edited in English by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. 893 pp. Originally published in Germany (with copyrights in 1986, 1989, 1992, 1996, and...

To God Be the Glory: a Centennial History of DBU.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... By Michael E. Williams Sr. Arlington, TX: Summit Publishing Group, 1998. 228 pp. Williams writes a history that exemplifies the typical Baptist college, acknowledging its humble beginnings, its transition from a rural two-year institution...

Against Returning to Egypt: Exposing and Resisting Creedalism in the Southern Baptist Convention.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... Likely, few Southern Baptists are acquainted with a doctrinal statement adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention at its annual meeting in 1994 known as the "Report of the Presidential Theological Study Committee." A small committee of...

Rebuilding Zion: the Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... By Daniel W. Stowell. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 278 pp. It may well be that understanding the Reconstruction era in the American South is the key to understanding the region in the nineteenth and twentieth...

Historical Dictionary of the Baptists.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... By William H. Brackney. Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, No. 25. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 199. 495 pp. William H. Brackney is one of the top two or three Baptist historians in North America. This...

We Are Baptists: Studies For Youth.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... WE ARE BAPTISTS: STUDIES FOR YOUTH. By Jeffrey D. Jones and Debra L. Sutton, Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1999. 111 pages. WE ARE BAPTISTS: STUDIES FOR YOUNGER ELEMENTARY CHILDREN. By Jeffrey D Jones and Debra L. Sutton, Valley Forge, PA:...

The Baptist General Association of Virginia. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Baptist General Association of Virginia voted in November 1999 to change its 169-year-old relationship with the University of Richmond by approving a plan to phase out financial support for the school and no longer nominate trustees to its...

The Kentucky Baptist Convention. (News Notes).
January 1, 2000... The Kentucky Baptist Convention recently approved making the Kentucky Baptist Archives equal to a KBC Executive Board department, under the supervision of the executive office. The move dissolved the commission and authorized the appointment of...

The Tennessee Baptist Historical Society. (News Notes).
January 1, 2000... The Tennessee Baptist Historical Society recently released the first issue of its new journal Tennessee Baptist History. The journal is available to members of the society. To join, send a $15.00 membership fee to the society's treasurer:...

The Baptist Standard. (News Notes).
January 1, 2000... The Baptist Standard, state paper for Texas Baptists, carried two significant series of heritage-related articles in its November and December 1999 issues. The series "The 20th Century in Review: One Bite at a Time" focused each article around...

A Special Gift to the Society. (News Notes).
January 1, 2000... A Special Gift to the Society.--An anonymous donor has donated to the Society via Slayden Yarbrough a fascinating copy of Volume 1 of David Benedict's General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, published in Boston in 1813....