Doug Weaver

Contact Information:
Department of Religion
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97284
Waco, TX 76798-7284

Office: Tidwell 104A

Phone: (254) 710-7283
FAX: (254) 710-3740

Email:
Doug_Weaver@baylor.edu

Associate Professor of Religion and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religion

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1985)
Special Studies: The University of Kentucky, St. Meinrad Archabbey (Indiana)
Master of Divinity, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1981)
Bachelor of Arts, Mississippi College (1978)

Biography:

Barney Averitt Professor of Christianity and Chair of the Division of Religion and Philosophy, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, Georgia (at Brewton-Parker from 1989 to 2002) Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Bluefield College, Bluefield, Virginia (1986-1989) Family: Pat Carney Weaver, Director of Career Counseling, Baylor University Two children, Aaron and Andrea, one grandson, Camden

Academic Interests and Research:

Baptist Studies, Pentecostalism, Church History

Professional Awards and Activities:

"The Baptist Ecclesiology of E. Y. Mullins: Individualism and the New Testament Church."

Recipient of the 2008-2009 Norman W. Cox Award for Best Article of the Year in the Baptist History and Heritage Journal of the Baptist History and Heritage Society.

"The Risk of Majority Faith." Winning Sermon, 2008-2009 Baptist Heritage Preaching Contest, Baptist History and Heritage Society.

Journal Editor. The Whitsitt Journal of the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society (1998 - ).

Editorial Board. Perspectives in Religious Studies, journal of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (2002-2006).

Member, American Academy of Religion

Member, American Society of Church History

Member, Baptist History and Heritage Society

Member, National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion

Faculty Member of the Year, Brewton-Parker College, selected by faculty/staff (2003)

Brewton-Parker College Teacher of the Year Award, given by the Student Government Association (1998); the Division of Religion and Philosophy was given the Division of the Year Award (2000)

The Jordan Teacher Excellence Award of Brewton-Parker College, selected by faculty/student committee (1994)

Selected Research Articles:

Baptists and the First Amendment: A Historical Overview." Baptist History and Heritage 43, 3 (Summer/Fall 2008), 8-26.

"The Baptist Ecclesiology of E. Y. Mullins: Individualism and the New Testament Church." Baptist History and Heritage 43, 1 (Winter 2008), 18-34.

Chapter entitled "Baptists and Denominational Identity and the Turn Toward Creedalism: 2000," in Mike Williams and Walter B. Shurden, eds. Turning Points in Baptist History. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2008. See pp. 288-301.

"I Don't Let Nobody Blow Smoke on My Blue Skies": A Study of the "SBC Controversy" in a Local Church." Baptist History and Heritage 42, 1 (Winter 2007), 94-107.

"Southern Baptists" in The Baptist River: Essays on Many Tributaries of a Diverse Tradition. Glenn Jonas, ed. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2006. See chapter three, pp. 45-67.

"Second Baptist Church, Atlanta: A Paradigm of Southern Baptist Identity in the Nineteenth Century," in Festschrift Walter B. Shurden: Distinctively Baptist, Essays on Baptist History. Marc A. Jolley, ed. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005. See chapter seven, pp. 75-97.

"Youth For Calvin: Reformed Theology and Baptist Collegians." (co-author with former student, Nathan Finn). Baptist History and Heritage 39, 2 (Spring 2004), 40-55.

"The Spirituality of Martin Luther King, Jr." Perspectives in Religious Studies 31, 1 (Spring 2004), 55-70.

Books:

**Editor of a new edition of E. Y. Mullins' The Axioms of Religion (1908). Macon: Mercer University Press, forthcoming 2010. I have annotated the text and have written an introductory chapter that assesses Mullins' contribution to Baptist life and thought.

Series: Early English Baptist Texts, 11 vols. Co-editor with Rady Roldan-Figueroa. Macon: Mercer University Press, forthcoming. These new editions of primary source full texts (e.g., the writings of John Smyth) will include critical introductions.

**Beth Allison Barr, Bill J. Leonard, Mikeal C. Parsons, C. Douglas Weaver, Editors. The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.

**In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist Story. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2008. 278 pp. plus index.

Second to None: A History of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. Nashville: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2004. 246 pp. plus appendices, index.

**The Healer-Prophet, William Marrion Branham: A Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000 (original, 1987). 180 pp. plus indexes.

Every Town Needs a Downtown Church: A History of First Baptist Church, Gainesville, Florida. Nashville: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2000. 232 pp. plus index.

Editor and primary contributor. From Our Christian Heritage: Hundreds of Ways to Add Christian History to Teaching, Preaching, and Writing. Macon: Smyth & Helwys Publishing Co., 1997. 376 pp. plus indexes.

Editor and primary contributor. A Cloud of Witnesses: Sermon Illustrations and Devotionals from the Christian Heritage. Macon: Smyth & Helwys Publishing Co., 1993. 185 pp. plus indexes.

Courses Taught at Baylor

REL 1350 Christian Heritage
THEO 7396 Baptist Identity
REL 3330 Introduction to Church History