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Tenney, Merrill C.

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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 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

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Baptists -- Missions. 1
Baptists. 1
Bible colleges. 1
Boarding schools -- Africa. 1
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Cameroon. 1
Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 1
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Catholic Church. -- Cameroon. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
Children of missionaries. 1
Christian drama. 1
Christian education -- Cameroon. 1
Christian education -- India. 1
Christian education -- Philosophy. 1
Christian education -- Study and teaching. 1
Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian education of children. 1
Christian life. 1
Church and state -- Cameroon. 1
Church and state. 1
Church growth -- India. 1
Church growth. 1
Church schools 1
Church schools -- India. 1
Church work with children -- India. 1
Church work with children. 1
Church work with families -- India. 1
Church work with families. 1
Church work with women -- Cameroon. 1
Church work with women. 1
Church work with youth -- Cameroon. 1
Church work with youth. 1
Cities and towns -- Cameroon. 1
Cities and towns. 1
Conversion. 1
Correspondence schools and courses 1
Correspondence schools and courses -- India. 1
Culture shock. 1
Education -- Cameroon. 1
Education -- Curricula. 1
Education -- India. 1
Education, Higher 1
Education, Higher -- India. 1
Evangelistic work -- India. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Evangelistic work. 1
Family -- India. 1
Family. 1
India -- History -- 1947- 1
India -- History. 1
Indians of North America -- Missions. 1
Indians of North America. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Cameroon. 1
Indigenous church administration -- India. 1
Literacy 1
Literacy -- Cameroon. 1
Medical care 1
Medical care -- Cameroon. 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
Missions -- Cameroon. 1
Missions -- Educational work. 1
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Missions -- India. 1
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Non-formal education. 1
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Orphans -- India. 1
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Sunday schools. 1
Theological seminaries -- India. 1
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Tribes -- India. 1
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