Baptist History and Heritage articles from March 1999

Baptist History and Heritage archives from March 1999

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 1999... In the past, Baptist History and Heritage has published editions that explore a single theme in all of the articles, as well as editions that have no single, unifying theme. Both of these approaches have strong points. A thematic issue provides...

The day the truck unloaded: an executive note.(Southern Baptist Historical Society)
March 22, 1999... I checked my watch; it was 12:31 p.m. on June 4, 1999. Rebirth had just taken place. Four workmen had emptied the eighteen-wheel Mayflower moving van, and I had just signed the last sheet acknowledging receipt of sixteen skids of materials plus...

Southern Baptists and millennialism, 1900-2000: conceptual patterns and historical expressions.
March 22, 1999... The word "millennium" means thousand. While the word "thousand" appears frequently in the Bible, the actual word millennium does not. Revelation 20:1-6 refers to a thousand years as the period of time of Christ's future rule on earth. This...

The confusion of calendars: the meaning of the millennial change to other peoples.
March 22, 1999... The arrival of the year 2000 is an event being greeted with great anticipation. The outpouring of books, essays, sermons, speeches, dramas, motion pictures, and television programs in the last years of the twentieth century has reached...

Diversifying the operation: Southern Baptist Missions in China at the turn of the century 1890-1910.
March 22, 1999... The end of the nineteenth century and the coming of the twentieth century brought significant changes to the Southern Baptist operation in China. The overall theme was expansion. The most obvious examples were in the rising numbers of the...

The Baptist State Convention of South Carolina and desegregation, 1954-1971.
March 22, 1999... In the Civil Rights era, leaders of the Baptist State Convention of South Carolina, the state's largest white denomination, sought to persuade Baptists to accept desegregation, but they were frequently forced to retreat by vocal, black-belt...

SBC resolutions regarding religious liberty and the separation of church and state (1940-1997): a fundamental shift.(Southern Baptist Convention)
March 22, 1999... Stances for religious liberty and the separation of church and state have long been among the hallmarks of Baptists. Baptists in America, in particular, have especially had a long record of supporting strict separation and absolute religious...

Women on the Threshold: Voices of Salvadoran Baptist Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 1999... By Kathleen Hayes. Macon: Smyth and Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1996. 134 pp. Women on the Threshold describes the developing feminist movement in El Salvador, particularly among Baptist women. Everything in the book is presented from the...

Encyclopedia of Religion in the South.(Book Review)
March 22, 1999... By Samuel S. Hill, Editor. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1997. 864 pp. The Encyclopedia is an absolute necessity for students of American religion and Southern culture. This new paperback edition should encourage a larger...

John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce.(Book Review)
March 22, 1999... By D. Bruce Hindmarsh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 366 pp. Bruce Hindmarsh has written a fresh and comprehensive biography of John Newton. He has shown him to be "a sort of middleman" (a phrase in the pre-publication book title) between...

Dear Chris: Letters on the Life of Faith.(Book Review)
March 22, 1999... By Warren McWilliams. Waco: Baylor University Press, 1999. 186 pp. The call to be a university professor is unique. Even more unique is the call to teach religion in the context of a religious university. Many students who come to...

News notes.
March 22, 1999... Deweese Elected Executive Director. At the annual SBHS meeting at William Jewell College, Charles W. Deweese was elected executive director of the Southern Baptist Historical Society. Deweese assumed his responsibilities June 1. The...