Campbellsville University

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  • Honoring Baptists

    A Community Service Celebrating 400 Years of Baptist Heritage, 1609-2009 Robert L. Doty Introduction This essay was originally written as a narrative for presentations celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Baptists by the Elizabethtown Area Sacred Community Choir on February 27 and March 1, 2009, at Campbellsville University and Elizabethtown Baptist Church, respectively. In addition to…

  • The Future of Baptist Theology with a Look at Its Past

    James Leo Garrett, Jr. Lecture, Baptist Heritage Series Campbellsville University March 8, 2010 I. Looking Back on Four Centuries of Baptist Theology A. The Chief Differentiating Theological Issues Among Baptists: From my studies of the four-century history of Baptist theology I have come to the conclusion that the principal differentiating issues among Baptists during the…

  • 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?”…

  • 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…

  • Revisiting the Concept of a Baptist University

    Dwayne Howell[1] Introduction Since their beginning, Baptists have seen a need for education, especially of their clergy. However, along with those who advocated the development of schools, other Baptists opposed education on the grounds that it hindered the Spirit’s work. This debate has raged for close to 400 years and continues in one way or…