Baptist History and Heritage articles from March 2007

Baptist History and Heritage archives from March 2007

Baptists and Bible translations.(EDITORIAL)
March 22, 2007... In 1914, Kentucky Baptist pastor J. W. Porter wrote, "Baptists have, in spite of their poverty and persecution, led all others in their efforts for translating and circulating the Scriptures." (1) Clearly, Porter overstated his case, but...

Baptists and atheism.
March 22, 2007... Atheism is an urgent theological issue today, claims Fisher Humphreys in his new booklet, Baptist Theology: A Really Short Version. In fact, he writes that "for millions of people today... their default setting is atheism rather than belief in...

Baptists and the hard part of the Bible.
March 22, 2007... The Bible is far more complicated than some Baptists think. But most Baptists throughout the years would agree that the most difficult thing about understanding the Bible is not the original languages in which it was written or the ancient...

Baptists and Bible translation: toward a deeper understanding.
March 22, 2007... Reading and studying the Bible fueled the Reformation. Protestants found new light in the pages of scripture to answer the deep theological questions at the heart of their unease with the Roman Catholic Church. (1) Breaking from the Church...

Beyond translation: the work of the Judsons in Burma.
March 22, 2007... Professor Lamin Sanneh of Yale University is an enthusiastic proponent of biblical translation as a significant component in the worldwide expansion of Christianity. (1) According to Sanneh, biblical translation led to the indigenous...

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed: American Moffatt or American monkey?
March 22, 2007... The publication of The New Testament: An American Translation "did not happen in a corner" (Acts 26:26 AT). (1) The translator, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, had already established himself as a well-known scholar; the University of Chicago...

My father--Charles Bray Williams.(Biography)
March 22, 2007... My father, Charles Bray Williams, was born on January 15, 1869. People usually tell me that he could not possibly be my father, he must be my grandfather! He grew up on the family farm, which was near the small country village of Shiloh in...

Helen Barrett Montgomery: a "Middle-of-the-Road Baptist" Bible translator.
March 22, 2007... Helen Barrett Montgomery is noteworthy among the Baptists for many reasons. One of the most important is her Centenary Translation of the New Testament (1924), the first and only English translation of the New Testament by a Baptist woman ever...

Of words and women: Southern Baptist publications and the progress of women in the 1970s.
March 22, 2007... In 1977, Charles Deweese spoke to the Florida Baptist Historical Society on "The Role of Women in Baptist History." (1) He began his speech by noting the abundance of material on the roles of women in church, home, and society appearing in...

Controversy over public funding to the Baptist institutions in colonial Hong Kong and the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s.
March 22, 2007... Baptists in Hong Kong in the first hundred years of their history carried out an educational ministry by their own efforts, because the schools were then operated by individual Baptist churches. (1) In order to respond to the social needs...

From "Funnymentalist" to friend: the evolving relationship of Ben M. Bogard and J. Frank Norris.
March 22, 2007... Some Baptist scholars have argued that the conservative leaders of today's Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) represent a resurgence of Landmarkism within the convention. (1) These scholars point to the Landmark Baptist demands of doctrinal...

Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era.
March 22, 2007... Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Paul Harvey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 338 pp. Paul Harvey has done it again. In 1997, he gave...

Esteemed Reproach: The Lives of Reverend James Ireland and Reverend Joseph Craig.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Esteemed Reproach: The Lives of Reverend James Ireland and Reverend Joseph Craig. By Keith Harper and C. Martin Jacumin. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005, 213 pp. The staff at Mercer University Press must believe that interest in...

The Story of Baptists in the United States.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Story of Baptists in the United States. By Pamela R. Durso and Keith E. Durso. Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2006. 224 pp. Pam Durso, associate executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, and...

The Betrayal ... Of Southern Baptist Missionaries by Southern Baptist Leaders, 1979-2004.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Betrayal... Of Southern Baptist Missionaries by Southern Baptist Leaders, 1979-2004. By John W. Merritt. Published by the author, 2004, 215 pages. John W. Merritt served as a Southern Baptist missionary for thirty-four years. His...

Our Baptist Tradition.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Our Baptist Tradition. By William Powell Tuck, Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 2005. 115 pp. William Powell Tuck is well-qualified to write on Baptist doctrine and tradition. A lifelong Baptist, he has experience as a pastor and...