Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2008

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2008

The Axioms of Religion: the one hundredth anniversary of E. Y. Mullins's.(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... In 1908, Judson Press published E. Y. Mullins's The Axioms of Religion: A New Interpretation of the Baptist Faith. For one hundred years, Axioms has provided in William H. Brackney's words "a shorthand for Baptist distinctives." (1) C. Douglas...

E. Y. Mullins and Baptist World Congresses.
January 1, 2008... E. Y. Mullins exerted a powerful impact on global Baptist thought between 1905 and 1928. Excelling as a teaching, writing, and speaking Baptist theologian, he prepared some of his best addresses for the first four Baptist World Congress...

E. Y. Mullins: public spokesperson for Baptists in America.
January 1, 2008... In the summer of 1895, the Boston Daily Globe announced that North Avenue Baptist Church of Cambridge had "called" a "Baltimore Preacher to Massachusetts." However, young E. Y. Mullins instead accepted a position with the Foreign Mission Board...

E. Y. Mullins: "A Man of Books and a Man of the People".(Edgar Young Mullins)(Biography)
January 1, 2008... In the early twentieth century, no Baptist theologian, minister, or layperson better represented "the sensible center" than Edgar Young Mullins, according to Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty....

The Baptist ecclesiology of E. Y. Mullins: individualism and the New Testament church: most observers consider E. Y. Mullins to be the most influential Southern Baptist theologian and denominational leader of the twentieth century.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Even literary critic Harold Bloom has said that Mullins is America's most neglected theologian. (1) Mullins served as president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1899 to 1928), the Southern Baptist Convention (1921-1924), and Baptist...

The inner testimony of the spirit: locating the coherent center of E. Y. Mullins's theology: critics from disparate theological perspectives increasingly find the theology of E. Y. Mullins inadequate for contemporary Baptists.(Edgar Young Mullins)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Conservative Baptist scholars have argued that Mullins's emphasis on subjective Christian experience undermines the primacy and authority of the Bible and that his emphasis on human freedom compromises the older Southern Baptist adherence to...

E. Y. Mullins on confessions of faith: what E. Y Mullins thought about confessions of faith assumed renewed relevance in 2007.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... At the fall convocation of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on August 28, Albert Mohler, Mullins's successor as president several times removed, asserted that confessions of faith are more important than ever for evangelical churches...

The ambiguity of historical study: was Mullins right or wrong about confessions? In his delightful book, The Churches the Apostles Left Behind, the late Raymond E. Brown, New Testament scholar, proved that there is a range of ecclesiological diversity in the New Testament that complicates the claim of different churches that their ecclesiology is faithful to the New Testament.(Edgar Young Mullins)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... He agreed that each was being faithful in a specific way "and both ecumenics and biblical studies should make us aware that there are other ways of being faithful to which we do not do justice.... In short, a frank study of NT ecclesiologies...

E. Y. Mullins on religious liberty: at the meeting of the Baptist World Alliance's Third World Congress in 1923, E. Y. Mullins ascended the dais in Stockholm, Sweden, to preach a sermon titled, "The Baptist Conception of Religious Liberty.".(Edgar Young Mullins)(Critical essay)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Mullins began with this terse declaration: "With Baptists, religious liberty is born of the direct vision of God." Whether taking the form of a dream or eloquent discourse or solace for the sake of conscience or even a battle cry, religious...

The significance of E. Y. Mullins's: The Axioms of Religion: one clue to the significance of The Axioms of Religion, the 1908 book by E. Y. Mullins, is found in the sub-title: a new interpretation of the Baptist faith.(Edgar Young Mullins)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Mullins wrote, "For a number of years, the author has felt that fresh statement of the Baptist position was possible which would enable the world to understand us better." (1) He also wanted the world to know that the Baptist faith was closer...

Recruiting for missions: the Baylor volunteer foreign mission band, 1900-1906: the Protestant foreign mission movement in the United States began early in the nineteenth century, but as late as 1890, fewer than one thousand missionaries lived abroad.(Baylor University)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... By 1900, however, that number had risen to over five thousand. (1) These numbers support the claim that Protestants produced a veritable explosion of missionary activity by 1900. Effective methods of recruiting were absolutely essential to the...

Not an Easy Journey: Some Transitions in Baptist Life.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Not An Easy Journey: Some Transitions in Baptist Life. By Walter B. Shurden. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005. 310 pp. In the last decade or so there has been a resurgence of published collections of essays and festschrift volumes...

Baptists in America.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Baptists in America. Bill J. Leonard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 316 pp. For years, Bill Leonard has been one of Baptists' premier historians. Leonard, dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University's...

Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years. By Henry H. Mitchell. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. 215 pp. Henry H. Mitchell has written a very valuable and informative...

Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will. By Wilma Rush Taylor. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2005. 219 pp. In Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will, Wilma Rush Taylor explores the...

Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton, Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian (Volume 3: Autobiography).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton, Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian (Volume 3: Autobiography). Compiled and with an Introduction by Joann Ford Watson, Macon: Mercer University Press, 2006. 262 pp. Have you...

The Changing of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Changing of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. By Roger Finke and Rodney Stark. Second Edition, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 347 pp. Conventional wisdom holds that Americans attended...

Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology. By John S. Hammett. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2005. 368 pp. Ecclesiology has drawn a remarkable amount of recent attention. Within the past five years, both mission-sending...