Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2003

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2003

Baptists and Old Testament scholarship. (Editorial).(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Baptists have been from the beginning a people of the Bible, a people of the Book. Rejecting creeds and councils and tradition as having final authority, the first Baptists of the 1600s appealed to Scripture for the final authority. They...

The Baptist soul. (An Executive Note).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Historic Baptist identity faces unparalleled challenges today. Chiseled out of persecution in the 1600s, that identity emerged from and survived incredible odds. Today, the battles continue. Numerous and dangerous internal factors puncture...

The saint's suitor: Crawford H. Toy (1).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... If Baptists in southern America have a saint, it is certainly Lottie Moon, the missionary to China who became a virtual martyr to her convictions, suggested an annual offering for foreign missions, and gave her name to that offering. Her story...

Repeating history.(Crawford Howell Toy)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... The story of C. H. Toy: the nineteenth century was a time of cultural and intellectual turmoil in Europe and North America. Industrialization led to increasing urbanization. Family roles altered, and social structures were overturned. These...

The biblical theology of H. H. Rowley, 1890-1969.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Harold Henry Rowley was born in Leicester on March 24, 1890, as the fifth of six children born to Richard Rowley, a foreman in one of the shoemaking factories that characterized the most prominent local industry. His mother was Emma Rowley...

Pam Durso new associate director.(Baptist History and Heritage Society)
January 1, 2003... Upon the recommendation of the executive director, on November 18, 2002, the BH&HS Board of Directors unanimously and enthusiastically employed Dr. Pamela R. Durso as associate director effective June 15, 2003. Durso has served as...

John Richard Sampey: shoulders on which to stand.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Assignment: Write an article for Baptist History and Heritage on "Baptists and the Old Testament." Well, to be honest, I had never really connected scholarly work on the Old Testament with a particular denomination. Those of us in the...

Page H. Kelley: Old Testament scholar and devoted Baptist.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Southern Baptists have not been known for producing internationally recognized scholars. This probably has a lot to do with the love/hate relationship Baptists have had with their scholars in general; the Whitsitt Controversy comes to...

Round two, volume one: the Broadman commentary controversy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Southern Baptists began the 1960s embroiled in a serious conflict concerning the biblical book of Genesis and ended the decade in the same manner. In the first conflict, some Southern Baptists attacked The Message of Genesis, a book by...

The Origins and Growth of the Baptist Faith: 20 Baptist Trailblazers in World History.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Lawrence Holiday Harris (Spartansburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 2001). Notes, index, illustrations. 794 pp. A full history of the Baptists in all their diversity is an impossible task, even in nearly 800 pages. Harris's...

Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By J. Wayne Flynt, Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1989 (paperback 2001). 469 pp. The hardest task for a historian is to give a voice to those who created few, if any, documents--the poor. Wayne Flynt accepted this challenge,...

Annual meeting 2003. (News Notes).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... The BH&HS will hold its next annual meeting on May 22-24, 2003, at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. The Fellowship of Baptist Historians will meet on May 22. Carol C. Holcomb, BH&HS secretary, Fellowship president, and...

Future annual meetings. (News Notes).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... Mark your calendars now for the following future annual meetings: May 27-29, 2004, Northwest Baptist Convention, Vancouver, Washington; June 2-4, 2005, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; and June 1-3, 2006, Baptist Joint Committee,...

Distinguished Service Award nominations 2003. (News Notes).(Baptist history)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The BH&HS welcomes nominations for the 2003 Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Baptist History. * Prepare a letter identifying your nominee and sharing reasons why you think he/she should receive the award. *...

Annual state reports. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Every state Baptist history program is urged to submit to the BH&HS by February 28, 2003, a report covering accomplishments in 2002. The reports will be used to determine the 2003 recipient of the Davis C. Woolley Award for Outstanding...

Lynn E. May Jr., Study Grant Endowment Fund. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, through the Lynn E. May Jr., Study Grant Endowment Fund, sponsors a program whereby grants are made available periodically for partial support of research in the SBHLA. The May Grants...