{"id":7292,"date":"2018-04-01T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/church-historian-to-lecture-at-furman-march-13\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:05:31","slug":"church-historian-to-lecture-at-furman-march-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/church-historian-to-lecture-at-furman-march-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Church historian Bill Leonard to speak April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attention: This lecture was originally scheduled for March 13 and was cancelled due to inclement weather in North Carolina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bill Leonard, the Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and professor of church history at Wake Forest University, will speak at Furman University\u2019s Charles E. Daniel Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, April 3 at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>His talk, \u201cBaptists and the Bible, Slavery and the Lost Cause: Inseparable Hermeneutics of Racism,\u201d is open to the public without charge. It is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Task Force on Slavery and Justice, Humanities Development Fund and Department of Religion.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s research focuses on church history with particular attention to American and Appalachian religion and Baptist studies. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including \u201cBaptist Ways: A History and A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the U.S.\u201d In March 2015, he delivered the William James Lecture on Religious Experience at Harvard Divinity School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a significant address on the connections between slaveholding and traditions of Baptist theology and practice,\u201d said Furman Communication Studies Professor Brandon Inabinet, who chairs the Task Force on Slavery and Justice. \u201cThe talk will also address how Baptist institutions and Baptist-heritage institutions should act in regard to commemoration and practice today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furman was founded in 1826 by South Carolina Baptists and named for prominent Southern Baptist minister Richard Furman. The institution\u2019s early history was shaped by the theology of Baptist leaders such as Basil and Charles Manly, Jonathan Davis, William B. Johnson and James C. Furman, its first president. Some were slave owners, and many were leading voices in biblically justifying slavery. Furman has been an independent institution since the university and South Carolina Baptist Convention severed ties in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention: This lecture was originally scheduled for March 13 and was cancelled due to inclement weather in North Carolina. Bill Leonard, the Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}