Tenney, Merrill C.
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 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Filtered By
- Subject: Church work with women X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Africa. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Cameroon. 1
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Cameroon. 1
- Christian education -- Cameroon. 1
- Christian education of children. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christian martyrs -- Sudan. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Christianity and other religions. 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church and state -- Cameroon. 1
- Church and state -- Sudan. 1
- Church work with women -- Cameroon. 1
- Church work with women -- Sudan. 1
- Church work with youth -- Cameroon. 1
- Church work with youth. 1
- Cities and towns -- Cameroon. 1
- Cities and towns. 1
- College students in missionary work. 1
- Conversion. 1
- Courtship -- Sudan. 1
- Courtship. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Cameroon. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Sudan. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Fund raising. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Cameroon. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Sudan. 1
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
- Khartoum (Sudan) 1
- Koma (Sudanese and Ethiopian people) 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Literacy 1
- Literacy -- Cameroon. 1
- Maban (African people) 1
- Marriage -- Sudan. 1
- Marriage. 1
- Medical care -- Cameroon. 1
- Medical care -- Sudan. 1
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
- Missionaries -- Australia. 1
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 1
- Missions -- Finance. 1
- Missions -- Sudan. 1
- Missions to Muslims -- Sudan. 1
- Missions to Muslims. 1
- Muslims -- Sudan. 1
- Muslims. 1
- Nationalism -- Sudan. 1
- Nationalism. 1
- Persecution -- Sudan. 1
- Persecution. 1
- Prayer groups -- Sudan. 1
- Prayer groups. 1
- Presbyterians. 1
- Religion in the public schools 1
- Religion in the public schools -- Sudan. 1
- Religious institutions. 1
- Sermons, Sudanese. 1
- Sudan 1
- Sudan -- Description and travel. 1
- Sudan -- History 1
- Sudan -- History -- 1899-1956. 1
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1955-1972. 1 ∧ less