Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2001

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2001

Special international issue: last July, Wake Forest University's Divinity School hosted the Second International Conference on Baptist Studies. (Editorial).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The three-day conference brought together senior and junior scholars in Baptist history and theology from around the world. The tone of the conference was positive and true to the best of the Baptist tradition. have found that it is the rare...

Global Baptist Heritage Preaching Contest: this combined Winter/Spring 2001 issue of Baptist History and Heritage is especially important for four key reasons. (An Executive Note).(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... It is the first issue published by the newly named Baptist History and Heritage Society (formerly Southern Baptist Historical Society). The society's choice to incorporate into its new name the title of its journal signifies the importance it...

Baptist World Alliance relief efforts in Post-Second-World-War Europe: the Baptist World Alliance, the official global fellowship of Baptists, was created at the Baptist World Congress in London in 1905.
January 1, 2001... Among its many activities is the promotion of cooperative effort in the relief of suffering people, which now is the function of the division of Baptist World Aid. This venture into relief had its beginning in the aftermath of World War I....

Patterns of Canadian Baptist life in the twentieth century: Baptists in Canada met in the summer of 1900 in Winnipeg to organize an all-Canada Union.
January 1, 2001... Those who attended were members of the unions from across Canada hat had their roots in the Regular or Calvinistic Baptists. Baptists had experienced remarkable expansion in the nineteenth century as they grew from several hundred members in...

Central Canadian Baptists and the role of cultural factors in the fundamentalist-modernist Schism of 1927: "Culture wars" are not a new phenomenon. In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptists were engaged in an ongoing debate over values and lifestyle.
January 1, 2001... Fundamentalists argued that Baptists should reject socio-cultural integration and preserve the purity of the faith by separating from an emerging modern and secular culture. Theologically, these Baptists were absolutists and purists who sought...

Religious pluralism in the United States and other lands: a challenge for Baptists and other Christians in the 21st century: my paper concentrates primarily on prospects rather than retrospects for two reasons.
January 1, 2001... First, I have dealt with this subject in a number of previous essays. Second, Baptists, like other evangelicals, have given their primary attention to evangelism, missions, and personal conversion rather than to interreligious dialogue and...

U. S. Baptists and modernity: great dissenters, lousy conformists: Baptists had been in North America for only five or six years before it was deemed necessary to pass a law against them.
January 1, 2001... The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1644, though it had much else on its mind in the second decade of its existence, took time out to issue a stern warning against Baptists, or "Anabaptists" as the Colony preferred to tag them. That law began in...

Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Estonia, 1945-1989: survival techniques, outreach efforts, search for identity: Baptists are alive and well in Estonia--in spite of decades filled with attempts to destroy them.
January 1, 2001... The aim of the present article is to give a general survey about Baptist history in Estonia, the northernmost of the three Baltic countries, between 1945 and 1989. This rather broad theme is observed from three aspects. First, what features...

Baptist developments in the Nordic Countries during the twentieth century: in the Nordic Countries, Baptists have had an uphill struggle against the dominant Lutheranism.(Baptist church in Scandinavia)
January 1, 2001... The Nordic Countries included in this article are Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. A fifth Nordic country, Iceland, is not included. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are also designated the Scandinavian countries, located around the waters...

Another way of being a Christian in France: a century of Baptist implantation: France is the largest country of Western Europe. Its cultural influence is very ancient and still strong today, in spite of the fact that, since the beginning of the twentieth century, English has gradually replaced French as the language of the world's cultural elite.
January 1, 2001... In spite of a decline in terms of world impact, France is today the fourth world economic power. Paris, its capital city, has always had worldwide influence. This was even more obvious at the beginning of the nineteenth century, just after the...

The Holy Spirit: the key to the baptismal sacramentalism of H. Wheeler Robinson: the rise of the ecumenical movement in the early twentieth century meant that many principles held so dear for generations, or so it seemed, came under the theological microscope, and established practices were increasingly challenged from within and without ...
January 1, 2001... For Baptists associated with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, it was baptism more than any other doctrine because of its sectarian nature that became the focus of Baptist thinking. The Baptists' leading scholar in the first half of the...

Baptist theological education in Africa, particularly in South Africa: this article will identify some of the central historical and contemporary factors that are having an impact on Baptist theological education in Africa and, specifically, on South Africa.
January 1, 2001... Attention is given to some of the social contexts in which theological education has functioned as well as the ecclesiastical factors that have influenced national Baptist leaders and conventions/unions. Specific attention is given throughout...

Japanese Baptists' compromise with nationalism in 1941: the historical ancestors of Japanese Baptists were the defenders of religious liberty. However, prewar Japanese Baptists blindly followed other Protestant groups in surrendering themselves to the state.
January 1, 2001... They sought protection of the denomination by the government, agreed to accept the state policy of religion, and went into the organic union of Japanese Protestant churches promoted by the government. Prewar Japanese Baptists compromised with...

Seeking a Turangawaewae: constructing a Baptist identity in New Zealand: among the indigenous people of New Zealand, the concept of turangawaewae is of great importance. A turangawaewae is, literally, "place to stand.".
January 1, 2001... For Maori their turangawaewae is their home, where they have a fight to be present, the anchor point for their sense of who they are and with whom they belong. For non-Maori or pakeha New Zealanders, the concept has grown in significance. Once...

The Fundamentalist controversy concerning the Baptist Theological College of Scotland: on October 25, 1944, May Hossack wrote to her husband, George, who was on active service in the war, describing the events that took place in Charlotte Baptist Chapel during the assembly of the Baptist Union of Scotland.
January 1, 2001... Following a report of the Sunday School Committee, John Shearer, president of the Baptist Union in 1936, criticized the material used by teachers. He "shouted that it was full of Modernistic teaching--it denied the Miracles of Christ.... There...

Baptists in Latin America and their theological contributions at the end of the twentieth century: in studying the theological writings of Baptists in Latin America, we should both keep in mind the diversity of Baptist history and view these writings in the socioreligious context of the whole continent.
January 1, 2001... Julio de Santa Ana, a Uruguayan theologian, has pointed out that the social development of the countries south of the Rio Grande is characterized by ... a heterogeneity of the various groups that constitute Latin American society....

The Words of Gardner Taylor. Quintessential Classics, 1980-Present.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Edward C. Taylor. Valley Forge: Judson Press 2000. Bibliographical references, 208 pages. The editor, Edward C. Taylor, is dean of Christian Education for the General Baptist Convention of New Jersey. He also is pastor of the New...

The Baptists in Australia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By Philip J. Hughes. South Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, 1996. 86 pages. The Baptist denomination in Australia, although comparatively small, is a vigorous evangelical body. The...

Revivals, Baptists and George Rawlyk: a Memorial Volume.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Daniel C. Goodwin. Wolfville: Acadia University. Distributed by Gaspereau Press, 2000. 191 pages. This volume is the latest of a series of seventeen studies and/or collections of documents illustrative of the Baptist heritage of...

Baptists Against Racism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Denton Lotz. McLean, Va.: The Baptist World Alliance, 1991. 192 pages. The Beeson Divinity School of Samford University has distributed this book, the proceedings of the International Summit on Baptists Against Racism and Ethnic...

A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By David Stricklin. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999. xvii + 229 pages. For several decades, historians of southern religion have debated the prevalence of Social Christianity among southern religious groups. On the one hand,...

Southern Baptists: a Historical, Ecclesiological, and Theological Heritage of a Confessional People.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By Slayden A. Yarbrough. Nashville: Southern Baptist Historical Society and Fields Publishing, Inc., 2000. 132 pages. This book of five chapters is a brief and insightful introduction to the Southern Baptist Convention and its people. The...

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By Gerald H. Anderson, editor. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. 845 pages. This work of 2,400 biographies is a most valuable addition for any mission collection. The denominational spread is broad; it includes...

We Are Baptists: Studies for Younger Elementary Children.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2000. 110 pages. Is denominationalism dead? Does it really matter what one group of Christians believes as opposed to the beliefs of another group of Christians? In an era when many Baptist churches are removing...

A Review of Paradigm Wars: the Southern Baptist International Mission Board Faces the Third Millennium.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By Keith E. Eitel. Regnum Books International, 2000. Regnum Studies in Mission Series. 139 pages. Keith Eitel's title, Paradigm Wars, may not be the best description for this helpful work. The book is actually about a brief, but...

You Are a Great People: Maryland/Delaware Baptists, 1742-1998.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By W. Loyd Allen. Franklin, Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 2000. xii + 324 pages. If geography influences history, there is no surprise that the Baptists of Maryland have always taken the middle, tolerant, path. Baptists came as a...

Pilgrim Pathways: Essays in Baptist History in Honour of B.R. White.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by William H. Brackney and Paul S. Fiddes with John H. Y. Briggs. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1999. 328 pages. Few British Baptists have contributed to the study of Baptist history and church history in the same scope and depth...

The Myth of Christian America: What You Need to Know About the Separation of Church and State.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By Mark Weldon Whitten, Macon: Smyth and Helwys, 1999. 122 pages. In nine essays designed to help pastors and laypersons learn the true meaning of the separation of church and state, Mark Whitten descries and debunks certain myths...

Inventing the "Great Awakening.".(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By Frank Lambert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 300 pages. In the early 1980s, Jon Butler discarded the notion of a comprehensive revival throughout the English colonies, asserting that this concept had been the invention of...

Blessed Are the Peacemakers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... By S. Jonathan Bass. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. 322 pages. Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham jail is one of the most significant documents of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It...

The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Terry G. Carter. Macon: Smith and Helwys Publishing, Inc., 2000. xv + 304 pages. The English Baptist William Carey (1761-1834) is one of the most important figures in missionary history, a trailblazer whose approach to missions...

Society approves a new name. (News Notes).
January 1, 2001... The Southern Baptist Historical Society voted on March 23, 2001, to change its name to the Baptist History and Heritage Society (BHHS). The former name had been in use since the society's formation in 1938.

BHHS officers elected. (News Notes).
January 1, 2001... BHHS officers elected to serve in 2001-02 include: Dan Gentry Kent, Texas, president; Glenn Jonas, North Carolina, vice president; Carol Crawford Holcomb, Texas, secretary; and Charles W. Deweese, Tennessee, executive director-treasurer.

Long-range Planning Committee created. (News Notes).
January 1, 2001... The BHHS created a Long-range Planning Committee and elected the following persons to serve: Carolyn Blevins, Carson-Newman College; Susan Broome, Mercer University; Brad Creed, George W. Truett Theological Seminary; Frances Hamilton, Alabama...

Awards presented. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The BHHS presented the following awards: Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Baptist History to Walter B. Shurden; Davis G. Woolley Award for Outstanding Achievement in State Baptist History to the Alabama Baptist...

Future meeting sites approved. (News Notes).
January 1, 2001... The BHHS reaffirmed its intention to hold its June 20-22, 2002, annual meeting at Carson-Newman College. It also voted to accept invitations to meet on May 22-24, 2003, at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas, and on May 27-29,...