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 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 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
Filtered By
- Subject: Tribes X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belief and doubt. 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
- 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 leadership. 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 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 -- 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
- Correspondence schools and courses 1
- Correspondence schools and courses -- India. 1
- Courtship -- Sudan. 1
- Courtship. 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 -- Sudan. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Family -- India. 1
- Family. 1
- Fund raising. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 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
- Indigenous church administration -- Sudan. 1
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
- Khartoum (Sudan) 1
- Koma (Sudanese and Ethiopian people) 1
- Literacy 1
- Literacy -- Cameroon. 1
- Maban (African people) 1 ∧ less
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