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Articles in Spring, 2004 issue of Baptist History and Heritage

• Sounding a false alarm: W. O. Carver and the 1914 controversy over the virgin birth: one of the most intriguing questions in the history of southern religion concerns the nature and extent of theological liberalism in denominations, particularly the South
  by Mark Wilson
• A Journey of Faith: the Memorial Baptist Church, Greenville, North Carolina, 1827-2002
  by Michael A. Dain
• Youth for Calvin: reformed theology and baptist collegians: a few years ago a fellow employee at a Baptist college decided to enter the pastorate. He gave me a copy of his resume and asked that I look it over
  by C. Douglas Weaver
• Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: a History of Church and State in America
  by J. David Holcomb
• Publishing local-church history: many people have shaped my life for fifty-nine years—parents, grandparents, siblings, wife, daughters, friends, professors, and colleagues at work. But if I am honest with myself, I have to admit that local churches p
  by Charles W. Deweese
• William Carey's Muslim encounters in India: the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society of England in 1792 and its sending of William Carey to India the following year resulted from Carey's sermonic pamphlet, An Enquiry into the Obligation of the Chris
  by Galen K. Johnson
• Call Me Jeremiah! A Memoir Response to the Takeover, Dismantling, and Restructuring of a Christian Denomination
  by Michael A. Dain
• Baptists and "Calvinism": discerning the shape of the question: Baptists and "Calvinism" is an important topic. Much is at stake, if for no other reason than it concerns yet another fault line through Christ's people, sadly divided in
  by Philip E. Thompson
• The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible
  by Michael E. Williams, Sr.
• Baptists and Calvinism: my friend, Jimmy Allen of Heritage Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina, recently shared with me a "Baptists and Calvinism" story
  by Pamela R. Durso
• Southern Baptist women ministering in Metro New York, 1970-1995: the story of Southern Baptist women ministering in Metro New York from 1970 to the mid-1990s is remarkable
  by DeLane M. Ryals
• The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents
  by Blake Killingsworth
• Traditional Baptists and Calvinism: if we are not Calvinists, what shall we call ourselves? Arminians does not describe us accurately, and many Baptists think Arminians are people from Armenia. Non-Calvinistic Baptists is negative
  by Fisher Humphreys
• Baptists in Colonial New Zealand: Documents Illustrating Baptist Life and Development
  by Christopher Beckham
• Ill Newes from twenty-first century America: most of the readers of this journal are well acquainted with John Clarke and his 1651 Ill Newes from New England
  by Walter B. Shurden
• The Papers of Isaac Backus, 1630-1806: a Guide to the Microfilm Edition
  by Charles W. Deweese
• Contributions of William Owen Carver to the missions movement among Southern Baptists: William Owen Carver was professor of Christian missions at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1896 to 1943. More than anyone else, he shaped the theology of mis
  by Henlee Barnette
• William Louis Poteat: a Leader of the Progressive-Era South
  by Terry G. Carter
• The influence of Calvinism on seventeenth-century English Baptists: theological labels need to be treated with care, for they are not, and cannot be, representative of fixed systems, totally resistant to reinterpretation according to changing context, be
  by John Briggs
• Putting Women in Their Place: Moving Beyond Gender Stereotypes in Church and Home
  by Pamela R. Durso
• The influence of Calvinism on colonial Baptists: an ongoing argument emerging in the past decades of Baptist life revolves around the theological origins of early Baptists generally, specifically in America, and the role that Calvinist theology played in
  by Michael E. Williams, Sr.