Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Baylor University

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Ben E. Dickerson ◽  
Dennis R. Myers ◽  
Lucian E. Coleman ◽  
Derrel R. Watkins
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Nindyo Sasongko

“Sayap Kiri Reformasi,” demikianlah Roland H. Bainton, sejarawan Amerika ternama, menamai gerakan yang memisahkan diri dari Reformasi “resmi” di Zürich, Swiss. Ternyata bukan hanya sebutan di atas yang diberikan, gerakan ini juga disebut sebagai “Reformasi Radikal” (istilah George H. Williams, Profesor Sejarah Gereja dari Universitas Harvard). Gerakan tersebut secara umum dikenal sebagai Anabaptisme. Sejak kelahirannya di kota Zürich, gerakan ini dianggap sebagai bidat, sempalan dari gerakan Reformasi yang benar. Karena itu, tidaklah mengherankan bila gerakan ini sangat dibenci baik oleh gereja Katolik Roma maupun para Reformator. Kebencian itu terwujud dalam bentuk penganiayaan selama sekitar 200 tahun. Inti masalah yang dilupakan ialah latar belakang yang membidani lahirnya gerakan ini. Sitz im Leben yang disajikan dalam literatur-literatur sejarah gereja yang dipakai di sekolah-sekolah tinggi teologi di luar negeri maupun di Indonesia sering kali berat sebelah. Sebagaimana diungkapkan oleh almarhum William R. Estep, Jr., Profesor Sejarah Gereja dari Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, “Perhaps there is no group within Christian History that has been judged unfairly as the Anabaptists of the sixteenth century.” Bahkan hingga kini, Anabaptisme masih dipandang sebagai sempalan terhadap ortodoksi, ajaran yang alkitabiah. Kurangnya literatur yang membahas awal mula berdirinya gerakan ini mendorong penulis untuk membuka kembali catatan-catatan sejarah. Membuka kembali catatan sejarah bisa jadi menguak kesalahan pihak lain. Tetapi di sini penulis sama sekali tidak bermaksud memojokkan pihak mana pun. Sumber-sumber utama yang penulis pakai berasal dari para pakar sejarah gereja non-Anabaptis yang telah melakukan riset terhadap gerakan ini secara intensif. Mengingat luasnya permasalahan, maka penulis hanya memfokuskan pemaparan pada peristiwa sekitar Reformasi yang dipelopori oleh Zwingli di Swiss tahun 1519 hingga Januari 1525 dan problem yang terjadi sehingga kaum “radikal” ini memilih untuk memisahkan diri dari garis utama Reformasi. Pertama-tama, label yang dikenakan kepada gerakan ini perlu mendapat penjernihan. Kemudian, penulis akan memaparkan peristiwa Reformasi Zwingli yang dilanjutkan dengan kelahiran “si anak tiri.”


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182
Author(s):  
Kelly Pigott

For the first half of the twentieth century, two Baptist pastors “squared off” with one another from the First Baptist Church pulpits of two rival Texas towns. In Dallas, George W. Truett led what would arguably become the flagship church of Southern Baptists. Across the Trinity River in Fort Worth, J. Frank Norris, also known as the “Texas Tornado,” packed auditoriums preaching sensational sermons. Mentoring both men was B. H. Carroll, founder of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. And like James Dean and Richard Davalos in the movie adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel, East of Eden, the two men feuded with one another, in part over the right to be Carroll’s heir. This article summarizes the rivalry as it played out in the lifelong conflict between J. Frank Norris and George W. Truett, and demonstrates how both the unifying statesman and the sectarian fundamentalist sides of B. H. Carroll are apparent in the struggle.


2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine M. Wainwright

This article responds to the diversity of approaches in the five papers presented at the Matthew Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, held in Boston (Massachusetts), 21–25 November 2008. This response focuses on an overarching question: what does it mean to read Matthew in a global context? It considers two key areas. The first is location and voice/language and the second, the hermeneutics and methodologies employed and how these enabled John Y.H. Yieh (Virginia Theological Seminary), Andries van Aarde (University of Pretoria), Dorothy Jean Weaver (Eastern Mennonite Seminary), Laura Anderson (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) and Lidija Novakovic (Baylor University, Waco) to read Matthew within a global context.


2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Ulrich

This article consists of a response to fi ve papers presented by John Y.H. Yieh (Virginia Theological Seminary), Andries van Aarde (University of Pretoria), Dorothy Jean Weaver (Eastern Mennonite Seminary), Laura Anderson (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley), and Lidija Novakovic (Baylor University, Waco), presented at the Matthew Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, held in Boston (Massachusetts), 21–25 November 2008. This response focuses on three questions: How can awareness of diverse perspectives or global realities enhance readers’ understandings of the Gospel of Matthew? In what ways might the Gospel of Matthew address global problems such as poverty, injustice and violence? To what extent do readers need a hermeneutics of suspicion in order to interpret Matthew responsibly in light of current global realities?


1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.


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