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Volume 16, No. 2 Spring, 2018 Rauschenbusch’s Legacy Still Relevant By Rev. G. Travis Norvell, of Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN, and Rev. Jerrod Hugenot, Associate Executive Minister for American Baptist Churches of State On April 9-11 nearly 150 people (scholars, utopia, but American chaos as issues of race, seminarians, , and laypeople from all over gender issues, war, economics, and religious the U.S., Nova Scotia, Canada, and Oldenburg, identity spun out in ways Rauschenbusch could ) gathered at the Mercer University not have predicted (or perhaps been attuned Campus, home of ABHS, for The Legacy enough to anticipate). of Walter Rauschenbusch conference. To be On Tuesday evening, after honest, it was an exhausting three days: 15 Paul Raushenbush, great- presentations, and a sermon by Rev. Dr. Raphael grandson of Walter Warnock, receptions and coffee breaks and meals Rauschenbusch, gave his and shuttles to and from the hotel. But it was personal reflection on worth every exhausting moment. Walter’s influence on the One hundred years after the death of Walter Raushenbush family, the Rauschenbusch, Christians, people of faith, and story was told how the American Baptist Quarterly people of conscience ask what is the connection American Baptist between our contemporary situation and the Rev. Paul Raushenbush looks Historical Society obtained Call for Papers ? over the Rauschenbusch exhibit the Dores R. Sharpe ABQ is the peer-reviewed journal of the American The Rauschenbusch conference celebrated the Collection (which makes up a large portion of the Baptist Historical Society. Both established and contributions of a scholar now departed a century Rauschenbusch Family Papers at ABHS). The emerging scholars are invited to submit papers ago, yet the themes and insights of story revealed not only the fragility of archival written from original research. Articles and essays Rauschenbusch provide great wisdom in dealing work, but also the importance of preserving should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. If you with issues today. The church still struggles with material for future generations. are interested in submitting a paper for one of the the question of social witness and biblical The papers from this conference will be upcoming issues, please contact the editors Curtis interpretation. Faithful Christians remain at odds published by Mercer University Press in mid- Freeman ([email protected]) and Laura with one another about matters of political 2019. Certainly, readers will get a taste of the Levens ([email protected]) as soon as possible. engagement and socio-economic theory. ferment of such fine presenters and scholars Rauschenbusch hailed from a deeply pietistic gathered to wrestle anew with the Rauschenbusch Submit by: German Baptist family, yet spent some of his later legacy. In the meantime, the works of Upcoming Themes years labeled a “socialist” for raising questions as Rauschenbusch are being published in three and the Holocaust June 1, 2018 the Gilded Age largesse gave way to the need for volumes, one by one over the course of 2018. Dr. The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Sept. 1, 2018 something better and more Gospel-centered than William Brackney and his editorial team have Reception of Evangelical Mission in India Dec. 1, 2018 unbridled capitalism. He stood in the midst of a provided a great service to present and future Did you miss the Legacy of time where a “Christian century” could be scholars and students of Rauschenbusch with the Celebrating Women in Ministry Mar. 1, 2019 Walter Rauschenbusch Conference? imagined with zeal and expectation, yet his introductory essays and bibliography that will Videos of most speakers will soon be writings would gain new resonance as the help acquaint new generations with such a available on the ABHS YouTube channel. intervening decades brought not American remarkable figure. Church Anniversaries 175 Years Join the Historical Society and Niantic Baptist Church, Niantic, CT; Rev. Jill April—June Harvey, pastor Become a Time Traveler We celebrate the faithful ministry of American Noank Baptist Church, Groton, CT; Rev. Dr. Baptist Congregations and their pastors! 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2 7 Membership Circle: Jitsuo Morikawa Executive Director honored Jitsuo Morikawa (1912-1989) was born to a Chicago came to a Buddhist family near Vancouver, British Co- close in 1956 when he by Morehouse College lumbia. He first heard about Christ from a was called by the The Executive Director of her in 1994, and North Shore Baptist Church neighbor, Mrs. Hampton, who was the organist American Baptist the American Baptist (Chicago, IL). At the start of her career Eppinger for nearby Maple Ridge Baptist Church and who Home Mission Society Historical Society, Rev. was commissioned by International Ministries took the motherless Morikawa siblings to Sunday to be Secretary of the Dr. Priscilla Eppinger, was and served as an educational missionary to the School. Morikawa was baptized at the age of 16 Division of Evange- inducted into the Martin Democratic Republic of Congo (then called Zaire), and recalled his conversion as a “dramatic lism. Morikawa Luther King, Jr., College and subsequently worked in the ABHMS Office of experience . . . through which I entered the subsequently served of Ministers and at Governmental Relations. mainstream of human history as purposed and as Secretary of the Morehouse College on A third-generation clergywoman —grand- planned by God.” Office of Planning April 5. daughter of Rev. Ted and Gertrude Eppinger and Morikawa moved to the United States for and Organizational The Martin Luther King, M.L. and Elaine Casbeer, and daughter of Rev. higher education, earning degrees from UCLA Development and then as Associate Executive Jr., College of Ministers and Laity was established Dr. Paul and Sybil Eppinger —Eppinger is and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Secretary of ABHMS. He also served as vice- in 1985 by Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr., Dean American Baptist “by birth and by choice.” Upon graduating, he returned to Los Angeles president of American Baptist Churches in 1984- of the Martin Luther King, Jr., International Eppinger’s commitment to justice was birthed where, under the auspices of the Los Angeles 1985. Morikawa retired in 1985 after over thirty Chapel, and Dr. Hugh Morris Gloster, Sr., seventh from her parents’ dedication to service to others Baptist City Missionary Society, he served a years of service to the denomination. president of Morehouse College, to honor and nurtured by a familial ethos of hospitality. mission church on Terminal Island. Morikawa was both well-loved and controver- individuals whose life and work exemplify the Although the professional paths she and her three In 1941 Morikawa married Hazel Takii. The sial. He preached an approach to evangelism ethical ideals promoted by the College's most sisters have taken differ, all of them involve care young couple’s world collapsed just three months emphasizing the conversion of the whole person: prominent alumnus, Martin Luther King, Jr. for the needy, the pursuit of justice for the after their wedding with the Japanese bombing of “one’s inner self in privacy, one’s social self in Nominees to the College of Ministers and Laity marginalized of society, and reform of skewed Pearl Harbor. The attack led to President society, and one’s public self in the institutions of have demonstrated and are evolving toward great systems of privilege and oppression. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which public life.” He also questioned the goal of evan- achievement in their chosen vocations, a effectively labeled people with Japanese ancestry gelism as being simply increase of church profound commitment to their community and a threat to national security. Morikawa, his wife, members. Instead, he raised the question of what society, the planet, and the cosmos, and are living and over 100,000 others of Japanese descent were the church with new members ought to be doing Recent Acquisitions their lives according to a high standard of In the first half of 2018 we have received the evacuated by the Western Defense Command to for the reconciliation of all to God and others. cosmopolitan ethical principles. following: ten War Relocation Centers. The Morikawas were Morikawa explained, “Leading people into an Dr. Eppinger’s professional path exemplifies The Writings of Darius Mitteer Ratcliff, and personal tagged “Family No. 34412” and taken to the Colo- experience of personal commitment to Jesus the ideals honored by the award. She took up the papers for Milton R. Schroeder, the Samuel Berry rado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona. Christ is a very important responsibility of the position of executive director of ABHS inspired McKinney Family (Samuel Berry and Louise Jones Morikawa later reflected that his experience in church, but we also need to work through the by the Society’s mission to advance Baptist McKinney, Wade Hampton and Annie Ruth Berry the internment camp affected him in two very im- institutions that shape human destiny. Our lay- identity, promote historical literacy, and thereby McKinney, Lora-Ellen McKinney, Mary portant ways: “It created within me a great resent- men serve in these institutions and they’re our advance spiritual and social transformation. One McKinney Edmonds), Lydia Grafton Bruce, ment and raised serious questions about U.S. missionaries. The church needs to develop ways of her priorities as curator of the ABHS archives is Howard Fitch Myers, Oscar Rodriguez Quiles, democracy and culture in which such a thing in which its laymen may become missionary to ensure the inclusion of marginalized voices in and Carl Wallace Petty. could happen. Secondly, it brought me to the actors for change in human history.” the historical record. We also received organizational papers for Roy enormous discovery that the church, and particu- He is remembered as one who sought to serve Prior to taking up leadership of the American Medley (Office of the General Secretary), larly the American Baptist Convention, could act those whom society has treated as outcasts. Just Baptist Historical Society, Eppinger was professor International Ministries, and Baptist Women of in a moment of crisis on behalf of people rejected as American Baptists did for him when he was of religion at Community of Christ Seminary North America (BWA). by society. . . I shall always remember the coura- interned at Poston, so he did for countless others (Independence, MO) and Graceland University We received a large transfer of materials from the geous stands of Dr. Ralph L. Mayberry of the Los as he sought to change human history and (Lamoni, IA). There, she chaired the Peace Angeles Baptist City Mission Society and Dr. John society. This call of service to the outcast resounds Andover Newton Theological School Library, Studies program. She also developed a proposal including some papers of Walter O. Lewis and Thomas of the Home Missions Societies.” today, and entering the margins of society is the for a seminary master’s degree program in George Peck, and materials of the New England In a daring move, First Baptist Church of best way to live out the legacy of Jitsuo community, justice, and peace. Earlier ministry Baptist Library. Chicago called Morikawa as associate pastor Morikawa. ABHS holds a collection of experience includes pastoral ministry at First during the war years. His time as pastor in Morikawa’s sermons, RG 1453. Baptist Church (Plymouth, MA) which ordained

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“The image of Law and Grace [by Lucas Cranach the

Elder] featured on the title page of the Brest Bible is set in a very tasteful architectural From the Archives frame, surmounted by an arch supported on two slender columns. The composition is Rare Sixteenth-century Bible divided into three sections. In the bottom section, the figure of a man seated between the We have at ABHS a copy of the Brest Bible (1563), the first group of prophets and is Protestant (Reformed) translation of the entire Bible into Polish. positioned centrally, aligned with the axis Reformer John Calvin was personally, if indirectly, involved in the defined by the bisecting tree. Behind them, translation project. there is the brazen serpent on the law side (on Named after the town where it was published, the Brest Bible is the viewer’s left), and on the gospel side (on the sometimes called the Radziwiłł Bible, after Mikołaj Radziwiłł viewer’s right) the angel is announcing the good “the Black” (1515–65), the benefactor of the project. A group of news to the shepherds. At the sides of the bottom Reformed scholars collaborated on the translation from section there is an image of the resurrected Christ Hebrew and Greek, also utilizing Latin and French on the right and a sinner being forced into Hell on translations. Interesting features of this Bible include the left. The title is flanked by images depicting the theological notes in the margin, and a daily Bible reading Lamb of God at the feet of the crucified Christ and schedule. the doctrine of original sin. The top section features The book is now quite rare because Radziwiłł’s son, Mikołaj the incarnation of Christ-Emmanuel and Moses Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, converted to receiving the tables of the law. The whole Catholicism and as a Counter-Reformation zealot, arranged for a public burning of all of the copies of the Brest Bible composition is designed to express the doctrines of that he could locate and buy. original sin and salvation through God’s grace alone.” (Zduńczyk, p.101) We heard that the Bodleian Library at Oxford University had a copy, and that Christ Church Library at the same institution did as well. We Research Snapshot have contacted both libraries for more Paul and information. According to David Stumpp, Genevieve Antiquarian Cataloguer at The Library in Christ The Bible has been re-bound, King of Church, Oxford: “Yes, we have this bible. I know although that binding is failing as Murphy, NC, only a little about our copy, however, . . . I have well, and several of the first pages of came to found an entry for it with its original shelfmark the volume have been reinforced. We research the annotated in our oldest interleaved copy of the have ordered a perfectly-sized church, school Bodleian’s 1674 catalogue, so it’s been at Christ reinforced archival box for the safe and hospital started by American Baptists in Church since at least the late 17th or early 18th storage of our Kinhwa (Jinhua), China, in the late 1890s. The century. The Bodleian appears to have three Brest Bible into Chinese government recently designated the copies of their own.” the future. church as a National Historical Site, and has encouraged the congregation to restore the The following articles offer more about the significance of the Brest Bible: Stanisław Koziara, “The Current State of Research by Polish Linguists on the Brest Bible: An building to its original look. The Kings looked Overview,” Reformation & Renaissance Review, Vol. 17 No. 1, April 2015, 63-72. through Photo Files, Property Files, and Rafał Marcin Leszczyński, “The Brest Bible: Trinitarian and Christological Issues,” Reformation & several issues of the Helping Hand and Baptist Renaissance Review, Vol. 17 No. 1, April 2015, 82-96. Missionary Magazine for descriptions or Aurelia Zduńczyk, “The Transconfessional Character of the Doctrine of Justification and its Depiction pictures of the original façade. See their story on the Title Page of the Brest Bible,” Reformation & Renaissance Review, Vol. 17 No. 1, April 2015, 97-109. on https://youtu.be/ke_bqOOM39o . Post this page on your church’s bulletin board. When you use information from “From the Archives” remember to give credit to the American Baptist Historical Society. 4 5