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 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 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 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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- Medical care 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
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- Abortion 1
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- Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Bible. 1
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- Boarding schools. 1
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- 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
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- Christian education of children -- United States. 1
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- Culture shock. 1
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- Ecumenical movement. 1
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