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Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985.

 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 3 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 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

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Animism. 2
Bible. 2
Christian education. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Church and state. 2
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Church work with children. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Persecution. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Tribes. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Women missionaries. 2
Animism -- Sudan. 1
Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible -- Translating. 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
Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Religion 1
Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Religious life. 1
Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Social conditions 1
Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 1965-1980. 1
Christian drama. 1
Christian education -- India. 1
Christian education -- Philosophy. 1
Christian education -- Study and teaching. 1
Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian education -- Zimbabwe. 1
Christian education of children -- United States. 1
Christian education of children -- Zimbabwe. 1
Christian education of children. 1
Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 1
Christian education, Outdoor -- Zimbabwe. 1
Christian education, Outdoor. 1
Christian leadership. 1
Christian martyrs -- Sudan. 1
Christian martyrs. 1
Christian sects. 1
Christian sects. -- Zimbabwe. 1
Christianity and other religions. 1
Christmas. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- Sudan. 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 -- Zimbabwe. 1
Church work with families -- India. 1
Church work with families. 1
Church work with women -- Sudan. 1
Church work with women. 1
Church work with youth -- United States. 1
Church work with youth -- Zimbabwe. 1
Church work with youth. 1
College students in missionary work. 1
Communism -- Zimbabwe. 1
Communism. 1
Correspondence schools and courses 1
Correspondence schools and courses -- India. 1
Cost and standard of living 1
Cost and standard of living -- Zimbabwe. 1
Courtship -- Sudan. 1
Courtship. 1
Demoniac possession 1
Demoniac possession -- Zimbabwe. 1
Education 1
Education -- Curricula. 1
Education -- India. 1
Education, Higher 1
Education, Higher -- India. 1
Ethnocentrism. 1
Evangelistic invitations. 1
Evangelistic work -- India. 1
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