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  • Religious Freedom and Tolerance

    Suzan Johnson Cook Commencement Address Campbellsville University May 5, 2012 What an honor to be here with you today. President Carter, thank you for inviting me to share this moment with all of you. You’ve worked hard and sacrificed much to come to this moment of graduation. Congratulations to each and every one of you!1…

  • Are Christian-Affiliated Universities Equipping Business Students from a Biblical Perspective?

    Richard E. Corum Introduction The mission statement of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) states among its goals to “advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth”.1 Although varied from one Christian-affiliated university to the next, the mission…

  • 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…

  • 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?”…

  • 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…

  • A Fascination with Element 60, Neodymium

    Roscoe C. Bowen, Peter A. Adcock, Sara Bonaccorsi, and Jean Oostens Introduction. A physicist visiting a health food store in the 1990s was intrigued to find a new kind of incandescent light bulb that claimed to have the ability to trick a person’s brain into stopping the production of melatonin in the morning, even when…

  • Who Moved My Old Landmark? Changing Definitions of Landmarkism in the Early Twentieth Century

    Christopher Bart Barber Lecture, Baptist Heritage Lecture Series Campbellsville University 18 March 2014 Introduction The most powerful theological force in the Western two-thirds of the Southern Baptist Convention at the turn of the twentieth century was Landmarkism. From the Llano Estacado to the banks of the Cumberland, from the Ozark Plateau to the Gulf Coast…

  • From the Editor

    Within these covers of The Campbellsville Review’s seventh issue, there is a variety of writing that reflects the intellectual interests of the Campbellsville University community. There are articles on history, science, literary commentary, a social issue, and music history; creative works that include a short story and poems, and a book review. Every contributor has…