Baptist History and Heritage articles from March 2002

Baptist History and Heritage archives from March 2002

Baptists and spirituality: interest in spirituality abounds, both in popular lay audiences and in professional and theological circles. (Editorial).(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... Cultivation of the spiritual gifts and practices has long been a part of the more liturgical traditions, but more and more Free Church Christians are developing an interest in spirituality. "The word itself can be rather loosely defined and...

Baptist history, spirituality and administration: Baptist History and Heritage, by design, does not attempt to be an esoteric historical journal; it serves more of an advocacy function. (An Executive Note).
March 22, 2002... The idea is to provide background articles that both address current issues in Baptist life and urge Baptists to establish creative links between their past and their present and evolving future. Both the current and most recent issues fit into...

Baptist approaches to spirituality: Baptists have approached spirituality much as they have approached virtually every other concept or practice-with a great deal of diversity.
March 22, 2002... This is not to say that there is no Baptist tradition in spirituality, tradition meaning the essence. The Baptist spiritual tradition has its roots in Puritanism--Baptists being one of the many religious movements the Puritans birthed in...

Hearing baptist spirituality in some conversion narratives from the American South: Baptist spirituality is conversionist spirituality. Baptist tradition insisted from the beginning that authentic churches are communities of gathered believers who convened to Christianity by voluntarily accepting Christ.
March 22, 2002... Believer's baptism, a signature trait in Baptist life, is a public manifestation of this principle. Revivalism increased conversion's impact on Baptist spiritual formation, particularly in the United States and especially in the American South....

F. B. Meyer: Baptist Ambassador for Keswick holiness spirituality: F. B. Meyer (1847-1929) was one of the most prominent English Baptist minister of his period.(Biography)
March 22, 2002... He came from a wealthy and urbane background, which was unusual for Baptist leaders in England in the nineteenth century, and linked with this background was a broad outlook-that meant he took a great interest in new movements within the...

A catholic looks at Baptist spirituality: for some thirty years now I have had the privilege of being associated with Baptist institutions (churches, seminaries, hospitals) and have enjoyed friendship and ecumenical relationships with many Baptists.
March 22, 2002... It is out of these experiences that I write. What is recorded here is not an attempt at a historical or systematic approach to the topic of Baptist spirituality, but personal observations and reminiscences that grow out of shared experiences....

Sing praise with the mind: reflections of a Baptist theologian-in-residence: what would it be like to be a theologian-in-residence in a local Baptist Church?
March 22, 2002... Between August 1997 and May 1998, I had that privilege. I served as part-time "theologian-in-residence" at the-First Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee. This congregation is richly blessed with a desire to ponder the relationship between...

Research room named after Albert W. Wardin Jr.(Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives announced February 19 that it had named its research room after Albert W. Wardin Jr., professor emeritus of history at Belmont University and president (1994-95) and executive director...

Christian spirituality and the quest for identity: toward a spiritual-theological understanding of life in Christ (1): we live in a "spiritual" era. In a manner unprecedented is the late modern era, contemporary North American, appear to be open to the spiritual dimension of life. (2).
March 22, 2002... Hence, the word "spirituality," which seemed to have been banned from the vocabularies of people living in a scientific culture, is now not only common parlance but even fashionable. This is the case even among those who eschew organized...

A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1611/1612).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Thomas Helwys. (Classics of Religious Liberty) Edited and introduced by Richard Groves. Macon, Ga.: Mercer Press, 1998. 156 pp. The first statement of absolute religious liberty written in English was produced by one of the founders of...

Baptist Life and Thought: A Source Book.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Revised edition. Edited by William H. Brackhey. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1998. 550 pp. Baptist Life and Thought: A Source Book, edited by William H. Brackney, now professor of religion in the Religion Department at Baylor University, is...

Southern Evangelicals and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... By Edward R. Crowther, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 286 pp. In Southern Evangelicals and the Coming of the Civil War, Edward R. Crowther argues for the importance of evangelical piety in providing moral justification for the...

Southern Baptists in the Mountain West (1940-1989), A Fifty-Year History of Utah, Idaho, and Nevada Southern Baptists.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... By E. W. Hunke Jr. Franklin, Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 1998. 368 pp. E. W. Hunke's work concerning Southern Baptists in the Intermountain West could best be described as a collection of stories, perhaps more so than the typical...

John R. Sampey papers available on microfiche.(advertisement)
March 22, 2002... The John R. Sampey Papers are now available in a microfiche edition for $3,900. This edition contains the bulk of Sampey's personal and professional papers that range from his diaries in 1883 to his death in 1946. Particularly noteworthy in...

A major new resources. (News Notes).
March 22, 2002... The BH&HS staff is presently coordinating a massive revision of the 1984 edition of the Resource Kit for Your Church's History that the society inherited from the Historical Commission, SBC. This will be available from the BH&HS by December 1,...

Baptist history book publishing program. (News Notes).(advertisement)
March 22, 2002... The BH&HS recently published a new history of the Woman's Missionary Union of North Carolina Baptism and a new history of the Memorial Baptist Church in Greenville, North Carolina. If you have a manuscript that needs to be published, feel free...

Contributions to the BH&HS. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Recently, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, became the thirty-first and thirty-second colleges/universities to make financial contributions to the BH&HS since January 1, 2001....