The history of Southern Baptist History, 1938-1995

Baptist History and Heritage, Summer-Fall, 1999 by Carol Crawford Holcomb

Endnotes

(1.) John S. Moore's article, "A 50th Anniversary History of the Southern Baptist Historical Society, 1938-1988," Baptist History and Heritage 23 (April 1988): 3-13, is a thorough resource for the history of the first fifty years of the society.

(2.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1936, 103.

(3.) Judson B. Allen, History is For Everybody (Nashville: Historical Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, 1955), 3. Historical Commission vertical file, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

(4.) "Southern Baptists and Their History" (Nashville: Southern Baptist Historical Society, ca. 1949). Pamphlet in Historical Commission vertical file, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

(5.) Walter Shurden's Not a Silent People (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1972) discusses the history of Southern Baptist controversies.

(6.) Many Baptists were aware of the controversies swirling around Professors Toy and Whitsitt at Southern Seminary in the 1870s and 1890s, respectively. Meanwhile, the Fundamentalist controversies of the 1920s and the image of J. Frank Norris loomed large in Southern Baptist memory.

(7.) Allen, History Is for Everybody, 4.

(8.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1937, 84.

(9.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1937, 85.

(10.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1939, 117.

(11.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1939, 116.

(12.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1946, 128.

(13.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1946, 128.

(14.) "Southern Baptists and their History" (Louisville: Southern Baptist Historical Society, ca. 1949), 1. Pamphlet in the Historical Commission Vertical File, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This pamphlet was most likely written by W. O. Carver to be distributed by the society.

(15.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1949, 347.

(16.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1950, 381.

(17.) "Southern Baptists and Their History"

(18.) John S. Moore, "A 50th Anniversary" 8.

(19.) Constitution of the Southern Baptist Historical Society. No date is listed on the Constitution, but it is assumed by a reference to a "committee of nine appointed in 1946" to study the charter, that this is the 1947 constitution.

(20.) Moore, "A 50th Anniversary History," 8-9.

(21.) Moore, "A 50th Anniversary History," 9. In 1995, the society underwent still another transition with the dissolution of the Historical Commission.

(22.) Woolley quoted in James E. Wood, "Baptist Journals," Baptist History and Heritage (1966), 57.

(23.) Baptist History and Heritage 1 (August 1965): inside front cover.

(24.) Baptist Heritage Update: 1 (Spring 1985): 2.

(25.) Baptist Heritage Update 4 (Summer 1988), 1.

(26.) Baptist Heritage Update 9 (Fall 1993), 1.

(27.) Slayden Yarbrough, "Why Do Southern Baptists Need the Historical Commission?" Baptist Heritage Update 9 (Summer 1993): 5.

(28.) Moore, "A 50th Anniversary History," 10.

(29.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1937, 85.

(30.) Annual, Southern Baptist Convention, 1939, 117.

(31.) Mark A. Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Baker Books: 1997), 15. all