Baptist prophets and The Meaning of the Baptist Experience: the Baptist History and Heritage Society views its publication program to be one of its distinctive contributions to the Baptist public.The BH&HS offers books, booklets, pamphlets, a how-to manual for history programs in churches, and a newsletter and a journal for its embers. For a complete list of available resources, see the Resource Catalog on our website: www.baptisthistory.org. The BH&HS attempts to relate its history-based publications to issues that have current importance for Baptists. Two such issues focus on the prophetic element in the Baptist story and the meaning of the Baptist experience. Baptist preachers weekly produce tens of thousands of sermons, and Baptist editors routinely prepare large numbers of editorials. What percentage of such sermons and editorials prophetically address critical issues facing Baptists today--using as plumb lines the Lordship of Christ and the authority of the Bible? Only God knows for sure. Evidence suggests that some preachers and editors need to become more familiar with the prophetic implications of Baptist history and with Baptist prophets themselves. Further, questions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Baptist identity, meaning, and significance have emerged with increasing force in recent years. Three typical factors causing such questions have included the Moderate-Fundamentalist controversy, post-denominational developments, and secularistic assaults on Baptist ways of approaching life, faith, and church. Two forthcoming BH&HS publications will focus on the issues just described. Baptist Prophets: Their Lives and Contributions, a booklet, will be released on November 1, 2006. This educational resource will focus on fourteen representative prophets: Thomas Helwys, John Clarke, William Carey, John Leland, Johann Gerhard Oncken
Johann Gerhard Oncken (January 26 1800 - January 2 1884) was a pioneer German Baptist preacher, variously referred to as the "Father of Continental Baptists", the "Father of German Baptists" and the "Apostle of European Baptists". , Lottie Moon, Walter Rauschenbusch, Helen Barrett Montgomery Helen Barrett Montgomery (July 31, 1861 - October 19, 1934) She was a social reformer, church leader, women’s activist, missions activist. Helen Barrett was the oldest of three children born to Adoniram Judson Barrett and Emily Barrows Barrett, both of whom were teachers at the time. , Nannie Helen Burroughs Nannie Helen Burroughs, (May 2 1879 – May 20 1961) was an influential African American educator, orator, religious leader and businesswoman. She gained national recognition from her 1900 speech "How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping." at the National Baptist Convention. , Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence Jordan, T. B. Maston, Henlee Barnette, and Foy Valentine. These prophets represent such dimensions of Baptist life as origins, religious liberty, missions, social action, civil rights, and opportunities for women. William M. Tillman, Jr., the author, is the T. B. Maston Professor of Christian Ethics at the Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Formerly, he served as coordinator of theological education for the Baptist General Convention of Texas The Baptist General Convention of Texas is the oldest surviving Baptist convention in the state of Texas. Background There were Baptists among the first Anglo-American settlers of Texas, but under Spain (and later Mexico), non-Catholic religious worship was prohibited. , taught on the faculty of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a private, non-profit institution of higher education, associated with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose stated mission is "to provide theological education for individuals engaging in Christian , and worked on the staff of the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention Noun 1. Southern Baptist Convention - an association of Southern Baptists association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association" Southern Baptist - a member of the Southern Baptist Convention . The Meaning of the Baptist Experience, another booklet, will be released on March 1, 2007. This publication will interpret the meaning of the 400-year-old, worldwide Baptist experience-considering such factors as its history, theology, polity, similarities to and distinctions from other Christian traditions, character, diversity, controversies, and contributions. William E. Hull For other persons named William Hull, see William Hull (disambiguation). William Edgar Hull (January 13, 1866 - May 30, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. is writing this booklet. Currently, he serves as Research Professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Formerly, he served as Samford's provost, as pastor of the First Baptist Church First Baptist Church may refer to many churches: Canada
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"We must not, dare not be indifferent to the heritage of mighty names and vital principles that have come down to us," claimed George W. Truett in his presidential address to the 1939 Baptist World Congress in Atlanta, Georgia. So it is not an accident that the BH&HS produces resources that tie together past, present, and future. We are intentionally committed to learning history's lessons. Charles W. Deweese Executive Director-Treasurer Baptist History and Heritage Society |
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