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Article: Columns: Glimpses of a Seminary Under Assault.(Book review)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- January 1, 2007
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Columns: Glimpses of a Seminary Under Assault. By Russell H. Dilday. Macon, Georgia: Smyth and Helwys, 2004. 346 pp.
From 1978, when he became president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, until his forced removal in 1994, Russell Dilday wrote 146 columns for the seminary's news magazine. To prepare to write his new book, Columns, Dilday reviewed each of the articles he had written, a task that allowed him to offer a picture of his role in the denominational controversies of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). After a preface that gives Dilday's perspective on the fundamentalist takeover of the seminary, as well as the rise of right-wing influences ...