Tenney, Merrill C.
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1904 - 1985
Biographical Statement
Merrill Chapin Tenney was born in 1904 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Wallace Fay Tenney and Lydia Smith Goodwin. He earned his Th.B. from Gordon College of Theology and Missions (1927), his A.M. from Boston University (1930), and his Ph.D. in Biblical and Patristic Greek from Harvard University (1944). He briefly served as pastor of Storrs Avenue Baptist Church in Braintree, Massachusetts (1926-1928), before joining the faculty at Gordon College for thirteen years. Tenney moved to Wheaton in 1943 and was Professor of New Testament and Greek until 1977. He also was dean of the graduate school from 1945-1971. He married Helen Margaret Jaderquist (1904-1978) in 1930, and together they had four children, John Merrill, Elizabeth Faye, Robert Wallace and Philip Chapin. He was the general editor of the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, and author of several books, including his widely received "New Testament Survey" (Eerdmans, 1961). He served on the original translation team for the New American Standard Bible. He died in 1985.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Christianity Today Records.
Collection
Identifier: CN 008
Brief Description
Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...
Dates:
Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002
Collection 111 Papers of Charles H. Troutman, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 111
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuals, and other records documenting Charles Troutman's career in Christian ministry among university students, first with Inter-Varsity in the United States and Australia and then with Latin America Mission. This collection also contains a great deal of information on evangelical Christianity in the United States, Australia and Latin America; Troutman's letters from his service in the Pacific in World War II; and reports and other information relative to...
Dates:
Created: 1924-1992
Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Collection 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1985
Collection 486 Oral History Interview with Helen R. Jongewaard
Collection
Identifier: CN 486
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Ruth Supplee Jongewaard (1922-2005) in which she describes her time as a student at Wheaton College. Among the topics discussed are aquaintance with Billy Graham; the Boethallian Literary Society; memories of professors such as Carl Henry, William Nordin; Russell Mixter, Merrill Tenney, V Raymond Edman, and others; revival of 1943 on Wheaton campus; and the effect of World War II on Wheaton. The time period covered by the inteview is 1920 to 1943....
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 628 Papers of Carl F. H. Henry
Collection
Identifier: CN 628
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, notes, minutes, and manuscripts related to theologian and author Carl Henry, documenting his work with the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, but which also touch on a few other aspects of his life, including his association with Wheaton College and with the magazine Christianity Today.
Dates:
Created: 1925-1984
David M. Howard, Sr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents
Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1993
Education by Extension Recordings and Workbooks.
Unprocessed Material — Container: 5
Identifier: 2022-0004
Dates:
1980
2005
Found in:
Wheaton College Archives
Jerusalem Conference on Prophecy phonograph record, "Echoes From Jerusalem."
Unprocessed Material — loose: 1
Identifier: 2022-020
Dates:
1971
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Merrill C. Tenney Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-111
Scope and Contents
Included in this collection are manuscripts of articles appearing in the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, correspondence with the contributors, and papers relating to the mechanics of the compilation and production of the dictionary. Correspondence between Dr. Tenney and Peter DeVisser traces the history of the project from its inception to production. Numerous Wheaton College faculty and alumni participated in the project.
Dates:
Created: 1927-1990; Other: Date acquired: 2002
Found in:
Special Collections
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Merrill C. Tenney Papers
Newspaper article about founding of City of Wheaton, poem by Merrill Tenney.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1984-114
Dates:
1972
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Phil Shappard Ephemera
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2023-031
Dates:
1963-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sermon audio tapes.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1993-063
Dates:
1960-1971
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Evangelistic work. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Bible. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- African Americans. 2
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 2
- Christian education of children. 2
- Christianity today. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education 2
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- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- India. 2
- Family. 2
- Glossolalia. 2
- Indians of North America. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Colombia. 2
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- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
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- Missions. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Theology 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Youth 2
- Youth -- Religious life. 2
- Abortion 1
- Abortion -- Religious aspects. 1
- African Americans -- Missions. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Berlin (Germany) 1
- Bible -- Dictionaries. 1
- Bible -- Prophecies. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Africa. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Cameroon. 1
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 1
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Cameroon. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Protestant churches. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- Children. 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- History 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 1965-1980. 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- History -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980. 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Politics and government 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1965-1979. 1
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