Campbellsville University

Category: University Faculty

  • My View of the Next “Greatest Generation”

    (as seen on November 12, 2008) Judith Collins McCormick As a forty-two-year old female professor of literature, I find that my perspective on war has usually “[mixed] memory with desire,” as T.S. Eliot famously said. The memory part has come from the stories of others – my father, too young for World War II and…

  • Imprint

    Judith Collins McCormick The baby monitor inches from my hand, I sit at my desk sorting pictures of your first six months and listen to your loud, then softer, then finally relinquished objections to my insistence that you take your morning nap now. Your smiles and expressions of wonder at various toys and people look…

  • The Prodigal Printer Henry Hills

    The Baptist Publisher of the King James Bible Larry Kreitzer Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University September 22, 2011 The King James Bible (KJB), printed by Robert Barker, the King’s printer, first went on sale to the public on 2 May 1611. Its importance as a piece of English literature…

  • The King James Bible

    Translating as a Political Act Glen Edward Taul Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University October 6, 2011 It was not part of the agenda. The delegates to the Hampton Court Conference had not gathered on a wintery day to argue for another English translation of the Bible. They convened, at…

  • The Sacred Oratorio

    Handel and the King James Bible Deborah Rooke Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University, September 22, 2011 The accompanied tenor recitative “Comfort ye my people” with which Handel’s Messiah begins is probably one of the best- known musical settings of biblical language (apart from the Hallelujah chorus, naturally!). It gives…

  • King James Bible at 400 900 Years of Getting the Bible into “English”

    An Illustrated Lecture Joel F. Drinkard, Jr. Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University November 10, 2011 Introduction The year 2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the appearance of the King James Bible. This article looks back briefly at 900 years of historical Bible copying and translating, the 900 years before…

  • Anchor Point: The King James Bible and English Literature

    Robert L. Doty Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University October 6, 2011 A note on the English language may be useful as we begin. Geoffrey Chaucer, who was writing in 1400, used East Midland dialect of Middle English. An uninitiated person who looked at his works would need to hear…

  • Baptist Affiliation

    William Loyd Allen Lecture, Baptist Heritage Lecture Series March 3, 2015 In 2006, the Georgia Baptist Convention severed its ties with Mercer University, ending a 170-year-old relationship between the two. When the news broke, a student in one of my classes asked: “Dr. Allen, what happens now that Mercer is no longer a Baptist school?”…

  • Published Works by Faculty and Staff

    During the past two years, members of Campbellsville University’s faculty have authored and co-authored many published books, articles, stories, and reviews. A listing of these publications follows. John R. Burch Books DeSpain, Joseph Y., John Russell Burch, Jr., and Timothy Q. Hooper. Green County, Kentucky: Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. Encyclopedia Articles…

  • An Examination of Brazilian Folk Music Elements and their Transference to Classical Suites for Piano

    Abstract Danielle Batista Silva de Souza, M.A. Campbellsville University Chairperson: Dr. Wesley Roberts This thesis investigates the transference of Brazilian folk music elements into two suites for solo piano by Marlos Nobre and Villa-Lobos. A brief historical survey into nationalistic musical folklore is given and its influence upon the compositional language used in Nobre’s IV…