Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2004

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2004

Academic freedom, Baptist principles, and Christian behavior.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... Many Baptists have long valued education. They have built Baptist colleges, universities, and seminaries, sent their sons and daughters off to those Baptist schools, hired ministers trained in Baptist seminaries, and given and continue to give...

Baptists and the prophetic voice.
January 1, 2004... Contemporary Baptists face a fork-in-the-road dilemma: They choose to be prophetic, or they don't. Amos was prophetic: He pronounced the word of the Lord. Jesus was prophetic: He was the word of the Lord. Baptist Walter Rauschenbusch was...

Spiritual authority in Baptist life.
January 1, 2004... Where does spiritual authority lie in Baptist life? First, for Baptists ultimate spiritual authority is to be found in Christ Lord (Mt. 28:18; 1 Cor. 15:24-28). Baptists believe Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, the incarnate manifestation...

The problem of free inquiry in Baptist institutions of higher education.
January 1, 2004... Academic freedom appeared with a new conceptualization in early twentieth-century America. It was formed by the forces of secularism, professionalization, and evolutionary science, and Baptists disagreed about how to react to the new concept...

Baptists and academic freedom.
January 1, 2004... In his book A Maggot, the English novelist John Fowles presented a compelling story based upon the life of Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers. (1) Although not a believer in conventional religion and indeed one who considered that...

Freedom of academic inquiry drives authentic theological education.
January 1, 2004... The concept of freedom is the bedrock from which Baptists have been hewn. The cry for religious liberty has been the most characteristic trait of Baptist theology through the years; yet there is an amazing paradox apparent in any discussion of...

Academic freedom and Southern Baptist history.
January 1, 2004... Following the 1898 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) meeting, William Heth Whitsitt, under pressure from a threatening B. H. Carroll and at the encouragement of A. T. Robertson, resigned as president and church history professor of the Southern...

Secularization of the academy: a new challenge to Baptist historians.
January 1, 2004... By 1920, the North American Baptist community boasted over 130 colleges, universities, and theological schools in forty-five states and three Canadian provinces. (1) As time and circumstances evolved, however, the list of Baptist-related...

Freedom and irresponsibility: fundamentalism's effect on academic freedom in Southern Baptist life.
January 1, 2004... Historically, Baptist attitudes toward academic freedom have been decidedly mixed. Arthur Walker described the Baptist attitude toward the academic arena as one of "ambivalence." (1) Baptists have sensed an imperative to establish and...

Baptist attitudes toward war and peace since 1914.
January 1, 2004... Baptist attitudes toward war and peace have fluctuated widely at different periods of history. Although a few Baptists have opted for pacifism on occasion, most fit better into the category known as pacificism by which is meant they regard...

Baptist Ways: a History.
January 1, 2004... By Bill J. Leonard. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2003. 480 pp. First it was Henry C. Vedder, A Short History of the Baptists (1892); second it was Robert G. Torbet, A History of the Baptists (1950); third it was Leon McBeth, The Baptist...

More than a Symbol: the British Baptist Recovery of Baptismal Sacramentalism.
January 1, 2004... By Stanley K. Fowler. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster Press, 2002. 276 pp. Stanley Fowler, in his introduction to More than a Symbol: The British Baptist Recovery of Baptismal Sacramentalism, states "Baptists have generally been much more...