Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2002

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2002

Historians and their stories. Baptists have a rich and diverse history, a richness that this journal and several other journals of Baptist history explore. (Editorial).
January 1, 2002... The people who make history are the usual topics of this journal. here is another side to history, though. The people who write history and the approach they have taken is another part of the Baptist heritage. This winter edition of Baptist...

The BH&HS and Baptist higher education: the BH&HS made major strides forward in 2001. It changed its name. It created a new logo. (An Executive Note).
January 1, 2002... It held the most exciting annual meeting in its history. It appointed a Long-range Planning Committee. It redesigned its journal. It published a new pamphlet series (jointly with the Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society). It released several new...

Enduring legacy: William Wright Barnes and church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Baptist institutions possess a rich heritage of individuals who have attained legendary or near legendary status.
January 1, 2002... Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, is no exception to this observation. Baptist titans such as B. H. Carroll and Lee Rutland Scarborough especially stand out in Southwestern lore. Likewise, theologian W. T. Conner...

Albert Henry Newman: with a bibliography of writings that encompasses at least twenty-one pages, Albert Henry Newman (1852-1933) ranks as one of the most prolific and competent church historians Baptists have ever produced.
January 1, 2002... Born in the Edgefield district of South Carolina, Newman received his education at Mercer University, Rochester Theological Seminary, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His teaching career lasted fifty-three years and included...

Kenneth Scott Latourette. Kenneth Scott Latourette was not a historian of Baptists but rather a Baptist who was a historian of Christianity; he achieved wide recognition by virtue of the range of his work and the new perspectives that he offered.
January 1, 2002... For over fifty years, Latourette wrote extensively about the history of the Far East and the history of Christianity. He is best known for chronicling the expansion of Christianity throughout the world. He published over forty volumes that sold...

The origins of the Southern Baptist Convention: a historiographical study: the purpose of this paper is to describe how white Baptist church historians of the South have interpreted the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention since 1845.
January 1, 2002... It is, therefore, an exercise in historiography. Most non-Southern Baptist church historians would doubtless ask, "Is it not obvious that slavery was the decisive factor in the formation of the SBC?" The answer: "No, it has not been obvious to...

The state of state Baptist histories: within the past five years, scholars have published several histories of Baptists within a particular state. Each of these histories has been written by a Baptist "insider," and most have been published under the auspices of the statewide convention or association (1).
January 1, 2002... This review examines four such histories, published within the last four years, and offers some observations and hopefully constructive criticisms about the "state" of state Baptist histories. Texas Leon McBeth's Texas Baptists: A...

When orphans became heirs: J.R. Graves and the Landmark Baptists. The nineteenth century found the American frontier ablaze with controversy. The veil of orthodoxy that united Western Christianity for sixteen hundred years had quickly disintegrated after the Protestant Reformation, leaving Christianity shaken, splintered, and at odds with itself.
January 1, 2002... Denominationalism remained tied to geography in Europe during the two hundred years after Luther. However, America was a clean slate, a region where individualism and freedom of religion enabled Christians to step out from the tradition of...

Duke McCall: An Oral History.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... with A. Ronald Tonks Brentwood, Tenn.: Baptist History and Heritage Society/Nashville: Fields Publishing, Inc., 2001. 480 pp. A young college graduate, the 1935 valedictorian and recipient of the General Excellence Medal from Furman...

The Baptist Reformation: The Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... By Jerry Sutton. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000. xviii + 542 pp. Through the official press of the Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Sutton has published the orthodox history of the most recent, lengthy, religio-political...

God So Loved the World: Traditional Baptists and Calvinism.
January 1, 2002... By Fisher Humphreys and Paul E. Robertson. New Orleans: Insight Press, 2000. 102 pp. In the last few years, Baptists in the South have seen a renewed interest in the theology of John Calvin. This is due in large part to efforts by the...

Polity: Biblical Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Edited by Mark Dever. Washington, D.C.: Center for Church Reform, 2001. 586 pp. With this volume, editor Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., and Senior Fellow of the Center for Church Reform, seeks to add...

Fellowship of Baptist Historians. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The BH&HS is pleased to announce the creation of the new Slayden and Janis Yarbrough Endowment for the Fellowship of Baptist Historians. The Yarbroughs established this account in November 2001 with a gift of stock valued at $1,022.80. Invested...

Annual State Reports. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Every state Baptist history program is urged to forward to the BH&HS by April 30 a written report covering accomplishments in 2001. The BH&HS will print all reports in its annual Book of Reports to be distributed at its June 20-22, 2002, annual...

Distinguished Service Award. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... To nominate a candidate for the Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Baptist History, simply do the following: * Send a letter to the society office identifying your nominee and sharing the reasons why you think...