Baptist History and Heritage articles from June 2008

Baptist History and Heritage archives from June 2008

Best for the church and best for the state.(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)(Editorial)
June 22, 2008... While putting together this issue of Baptist History and Heritage, I realized that it will be distributed in early November--at about the same time that Americans are going to the polls to elect a new president. In what has been an extremely...

Publications ministry.(Baptist History and Heritage Society)
June 22, 2008... Publications comprise the most distinctive and recognizable ministry of he Baptist History and Heritage Society. This ministry helps to equip society members, students, professors, pastors, and persons in the pews to appreciate, learn, teach,...

Maybe it's time to dust off John Leland.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Quick, name a famous Baptist who is long dead and whose collection of writings is now selling for about $400--for a used copy of a 1969 reprint! Now, name a famous Baptist who insisted that churches and ministers should not receive tax...

Baptists and the First Amendment: an historical overview.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Long before the passage of the American Bill of Rights and its First Amendment, Baptists advocated full religious liberty and the separation of church and state. ********** In 1611, English Baptist founder Thomas Helwys issued the...

The metaphor of the wall of separation: Baptists and the First Amendment.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... In the heat of the 1960 presidential campaign, W. A. Criswell, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, declared that our founding fathers wrote "into our Constitution that church and state must be, in this nation, forever...

'Til moss grows on my eyebrows! Acts 5:17-40.(Sermon)
June 22, 2008... Winning Sermon in the 2008 Baptist Heritage Preaching Contest ********** In 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow did what few in America were brave enough to do. He took Senator Joseph McCarthy to task. McCarthy claimed to have lists of...

The relevance of Roger Williams.(Biography)
June 22, 2008... When John Winthrop sailed across the Atlantic to the New World in 1630, the perceptions of others were at the forefront of his mind. ********** As he spoke to some of America's earliest colonists aboard the English ship Arbella, he...

A rock and a hard place: Seventh Day Baptists, religious liberty, Sabbath-keeping, and civil authority.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Seventh Day Baptists occupy a unique place in the Baptist family because of their observance of the Sabbath. ********** Although their reasoning for this observance is the same as their observance of the other staples of Baptist belief...

A millstone hanged about his neck?: George W. Truett, anti-Catholicism, and Baptist conceptions of religious liberty.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... The Baptist message and the Roman Catholic message are the very antipodes of each other.... The Catholic doctrine of baptismal regeneration and transubstantiation is to the Baptist mind fundamentally subversive of the spiritual...

W. A. Criswell: the wall of separation of church and state and politics.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Most historians would agree that First Baptist Dallas, Texas, was one of the most influential Southern Baptist churches in the twentieth century. ********** Under the dynamic leadership of George Washington Truett (1867-1944) and W....

Old wine in new wineskins: the First Amendment and the Internet.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Standing atop the amendments to the United States Constitution, the venerable First Amendment faces opportunities and challenges in the twenty-first century that were unimagined a mere two decades ago, much less two centuries ago. The...

Cracks in the wall? Changing attitudes toward the separation of church and state among Southern Baptists.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... While Baptists have held the concept of the separation of church and state since the early seventeenth century, perhaps the most mature Baptist confessional expression is found in The Baptist Faith and Message, the official confession of faith...

Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision. Studies in Baptist History and Thought, vol. 27. By Steven R. Harmon. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2006. 275 pp. In this collection of essays, Steven R. Harmon,...

A Distinctively Baptist Church: Renewing Your Church in Practice.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A Distinctively Baptist Church: Renewing Your Church in Practice. By Ronnie Prevost. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2008. 155 pp. Being a Baptist church is okay in today's world, claims Ronnie Prevost, particularly when the church effectively...

Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement. Joe L. Coker. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 329 pp. Southern culture in the late nineteenth century faced many challenges....

Baptist Identities: International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Baptist Identities: International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Edited by Ian M. Randall, Toivo Pilii, and Anthony R. Cross. Paternoster, 2006. 357 pp. The plural title of Baptist Identities: International Studies...

The Meaning of the Baptist Experience.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Meaning of the Baptist Experience. William E. Hull. The Baptist Heritage Library. Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2007.24 pp. No one in Baptist life presents an argument with more clarity than William E. (Bill)...

'Seditious Sectaryes': The Baptist Conventiclers of Oxford, 1641-1691.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... 'Seditious Sectaryes': The Baptist Conventiclers of Oxford, 1641-1691. Studies in Baptist History and Thought, vols. 30.1 and 30.2. By Larry J. Kreitzer. Bletchley, Milton Keynes, UK, and Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster Press, 2006. 1056 pp. ...

Fed Up With Fundamentalism: A Historical, Theological, and Personal Appraisal of Christian Fundamentalism.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Fed Up With Fundamentalism: A Historical, Theological, and Personal Appraisal of Christian Fundamentalism. By Leroy Seat. Liberty, MO: 4-L Publications, 2007. 283 pp. Do not let the pop title of this book mislead you into expecting a...

Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. By Nick Salvatore, Urbana: University of Illinois, 2006. 419 pp. Too many stories of American religion go untold simply because adequate...

Baptist Faith and Message 2000: Critical Issue in America's Largest Protestant Denomination.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Baptist Faith and Message 2000: Critical Issue in America's Largest Protestant Denomination. Edited by Douglas K. Blount and Joseph D. Woodell. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 260 pp. Edited by Douglas Blount and Joseph...

Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Place Fundamentalism in the South.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Place Fundamentalism in the South. By Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 177 pages. How did the South become the home of Christian fundamentalism in the...