A Southern Unionist, and other Baptist history links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Southern Unionist: The Ministry of William T. Brantly and the State of Evangelical Unity in the Triennial Convention -- “The Baptists of the South, though agreeing in fundamental principles with those of the North, are now in many important respects a distinct and separate people.”
• Advancing Progressive Orthodoxy: William Owen Carver and the Reconciliation of Progress and Southern Baptist Tradition -- “William Owen Carver (1868-1954), longtime professor of Missions and Comparative Religion at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, lived his professional life between two worlds: the conservatism of southern denominationalism and the liberalism of mainstream Protestant thought and practice.”
• Amazing Grace: The Story of William “Singing Billy” Walker -- “‘Singing Billy’ Walker” was a South Carolinian, a Baptist church member, song-leader, music teacher, composer, and tunebook compiler.
• An Analysis of the Evangelistic Impact of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International -- “Research reflects that for the last half of the 20th Century, Baptist Bible Fellowship International was a formidable movement among Fundamentalists in its independent Baptist doctrinal position and its evangelistic zeal.”
• Association Records of the Particular Baptists of England, Wales and Ireland to 1660 -- “Each set of records in each part will include necessary introductory material, a full transcript and its own footnotes, but all three parts will be paged consecutively and it is hoped to provide an index to the whole.”
• BaptistBasics.org -- “Welcome to the new home of BaptistBasics.org! This website has been a personal ministry of Matthew Gage since 2007 and is dedicated to preserving and propagating Baptist Beliefs and Heritage.”
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: H. Boyce Taylor, Faith Missions, and the Relationship between Landmarkism and Fundamentalism in Southern Baptist Life -- “H. Boyce Thylor (1870-1932), pastor of the Baptist church of Murray, Kentucky from 1897 until his death and one of E. Y. Mullins’s constant opponents in Kentucky Baptist life, presents an outstanding opportunity for such microhistorical study.”
• Doing Diversity Baptist Style: Major Variations -- “Baptist bodies…range in size from the Southern Baptist Convention with millions of members and tens of thousands of churches to the General Six Principle Baptists which today have only one remaining small church.”
• “Flocking By Themselves:” Fundamentalism, Fundraising, and the Bureaucratizatino of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1919-1925 -- “This dissertation will examine this question of the interaction between religion in the South and early Fundamentalism by focusing on the dominant form of southern Christianity, the Southern Baptist Convention.”
• From “Funnymentalist” to Friend: the Evolving Relationship of Ben M. Bogard and J. Frank Norris -- “What initially separated Bogard and Norris were their differing reasons for rejecting the Southern Baptist Convention as an unscriptural institution.”
• Gospel Missionism (1892-1910) and the Southern Baptist Convention (USA): prelude to a post-modern missiology -- “In 1892, a band of FMB missionaries posted with the North China Mission resigned and established their own operation.”
• Heroes of the Faith: Baptists from the past can be inspiration today -- “While that is an admonition to avoid repeating failures of the past, it’s also good to know history so we can learn from and be encouraged by the successes of the past.”
• Light in Darkness, or the Church in the World, by J. S. Crellin -- “Ecclesiastical Historians have grossly mistaken the nature of the Church of Christ by following a corrupted church away from the broad highway of the Gospel, and appear to imagine that God’s Church cannot be disrobed of the tinsel of national drapery...”
• Land of Promise: the First Fifty Years of Baptists in the Pacific Northwest -- “Baptist pioneers who settled in the Pacific Northwest during this period carried varioius local contentions with them, flavoring a land of promise with viewpoints that are still noticeable today.”
• The History Of Singing Hymns -- “The Goat Yard church now entered a period of strife which was to last well over a decade in which Keach argued that ‘singing in rhyme’ was the ‘public duty’ of all Christians and Marlow argued just as energetically that the New Testament recognized no such duty.”
• The Psalmist: a New Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Baptist Churches -- “American Baptist Publication Society, 1847; Baron Stow and Samuel Francis Smith, editors; with a supplement edited by Richard Fuller (1804-1876) and Jeremiah Bell Jeter (1802-1880).”
• Was John Canne a Baptist? A Study of Contemporary Evidence -- “It was my unexpected good fortune several months ago to come across five holograph documents by John Canne. Four of these were letters and the fifth was closely related to the other four.”