Baptist History and Heritage articles from March 2003

Baptist History and Heritage archives from March 2003

Baptist-Jewish relations. (Editorial).
March 22, 2003... The twentieth century, with the tragedy of the Holocaust, requires all Christians to examine their relationship with the Jewish people. Despite the fact that both Christians and Jews share in the heritage of the faith of Abraham, the Jewish...

Publishing and editorial changes. (An Executive Note).
March 22, 2003... Published in 135 issues since August 1965, Baptist History and Heritage will experience major publishing and editorial changes in 2003. It has a new publishing arrangement, a new editor, and a new book review editor. Let me cite a little...

Christian ecumenism and Judeo-Baptist relations in Savannah, Georgia.
March 22, 2003... On February 12, 1733, the earliest settlers in Georgia pitched four tents on the Yamacraw Bluff, and the birthing of the colony and the town of Savannah occurred. At least two Baptists were among those some 120 English settlers led by...

Baptist-Jewish relations: some observations from a German point of view.
March 22, 2003... Today the point of departure for thinking about a reasonable Baptist-Jewish relationship must be the recognition that the Holocaust--the murder of six million Jews planned and executed in the heart of Europe--was a watershed event in recent...

Understanding Romans 11:26: Baptist perspectives.
March 22, 2003... A New Testament scholar would be hard-pressed to find a passage within the corpus of Paul that is more difficult to understand than the words concerning the salvation of Israel in Romans 11:26. Biblical scholars have made numerous attempts...

Southern Baptists abroad: sharing the faith in nineteenth-century Brazil.
March 22, 2003... North-American Protestants came to Brazil in the nineteenth century, during one of the country's most stable times. Methodist work started in 1836, only fourteen years after Brazil had become independent from Portugal and five years from...

Southern social justice: Brooks Hays and the little rock school crisis.
March 22, 2003... Southern evangelical Protestantism (SEP) dominated the religious landscape of the South from the early nineteenth century until at least the mid-wentieth century. John B. Boles has described SEP as being "individualistic,...

The Newport Collection (1766): the First Baptist hymnal in America.
March 22, 2003... Baptist beginnings in the New World are generally traced to the founding of the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1639. From this modest beginning the number of Baptist churches in America grew slowly but steadily until the...

The conflicted Puritan inheritance of John Bunyan's political writings.
March 22, 2003... In his study of the Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt suggested that a heightened sense of the individual demarcates modern from medieval times. Difficult life under despotic rulers forced medieval persons who had previously looked to...

A Call to Greatness: the Story of the Founding of the Progressive National Baptist Convention.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By William D. Booth. Lawrenceville, Ga.: Brunswick Publishing Corporation, 2001. 241 pp. In A Call to Greatness, William Booth, a Progressive National Baptist Church (PNBC) pastor, chronicles the story of his father's important, indeed...

The Legacy of Southwestern: Writings that Shaped a Tradition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by James Leo Garrett Jr. North Richland Hills, TX: Smithfield Press, 2002. 356 pp. Southwestern Seminary since its infancy as a theological department at Baylor University in 1905 has cast a long shadow over Southern Baptist life....

Riding the Wind of God: a Personal History of the Youth Revival Movement.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Bruce Mclver. Macon, Ga.: Smyth & Helwys, 2002. 273 pp. As an undergraduate student at Baylor University in the 1980s, I recall hearing stories about the student-led revivals of the 1940s, the powerful personalities that lay behind the...

Kentucky seminary holds inaugural convocation. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky held its inaugural convocation at Calvary Baptist Church in Lexington on March 9, 2003. The seminary started classes on August 26, 2002. In 2003, Bill Ellis taught "Kentucky Baptists in the TWentieth Century"...

Florida Society dedicates new office complex. (News Notes).
March 22, 2003... The Florida Baptist Historical Society dedicated its new office complex on the campus of the Baptist College of Florida on April 4, 2003. Jerry M. Windsor is secretary-treasurer of the society.

Richmond seminary opens new Baptist studies center. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... The Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond will open the Lou and Randall Lolley Baptist Studies Center on May 30, 2003. It is housed in the recently renovated William Smith Morton Library on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in...

Future annual meetings of the BH&HS. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Mark your calendars now for the following BH&HS future annual meetings: May 27-29, 2004, Northwest Baptist Convention, Vancouver, Washington; June 2-4, 2005, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; and June 1-3, 2006, Baptist Joint Committee,...

New book available from BH&HS. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... On April 1, 2003, the BH&HS released a new book, Call Me Jeremiah: A Memoir Response to the Takeover, Dismantling, and Restructuring of a Christian Denomination, by E. C. Watson. The author worked for the Home Mission Board of the Southern...