C. DOUGLAS WEAVER 1028 South Haven Dr. | Hewitt, TX 76643 o- 1-254-710-7283 | e- [email protected] PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Baylor University Department of Religion, Waco, Texas (2003-Present) Interim Chair, Department of Religion (2021-2023) Professor of Religion (Historical Area; Baptist Studies) (tenured; 2012-Present) Director of J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies (Summer 2015-Present) Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion (2006-Present) Coordinator, Baptist Studies Center for Research (2010-Present) Graduate Faculty (2009-Present) Affiliate Faculty, G. W. Truett Baptist Theological Seminary (2003-2016) Associate Professor of Religion (2008-2012) Assistant Professor of Religion (2003-2008) Brewton-Parker College Mt. Vernon, Georgia (1989-2003) Chair, Division of Religion and Philosophy (1993-2003) Barney Averitt Professor of Christianity (2001-2003) Barney Averitt Associate Professor of Christianity (1993-2001) Assistant Professor of Christianity (1989-1992) Other Academic Positions Director of Admissions and Financial Aid with rank of Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Bluefield College, Bluefield, Virginia (1986-1989) Adjunct Professor of Church History, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky (1985-1986) Lecturer, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky (1985-1986) EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1985) Dissertation Title: “The Healer-Prophet: William Marrion Branham, 1909-1965: A Paradigm of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism” Areas of Concentration: Baptist History, American Religion, Early Christianity Special Studies: The University of Kentucky, St. Meinrad Archabbey (Indiana) Master of Divinity, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1981) Bachelor of Arts, Mississippi College (1978) 1 Major: Religion; Minor: History Graduated with “Special Distinction” Member, Phi Alpha Theta, National Honor Society in History Member, Alpha Chi, National Honor Scholarship Society PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed: Books Baptists and the Holy Spirit: The Contested History with the Holiness-Pentecostal-Charismatic Traditions (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2019). 532 pp. plus indexes. Co-Author with Aaron Weaver. Different and Distinctive But Nevertheless Baptist. A History of Northminster Baptist Church, Jackson, MS (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018). 306 pp. plus indexes. Co-Editor with Rady Roldan-Figueroa. Exploring Christian Heritage: A Reader in History and Theology. Second expanded edition (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2017). 265 pp. plus a comprehensive set of quizzes. This is the standard textbook for REL 1350, Christian Heritage, at Baylor University. Editor. Mirrors and Microscopes: Historical Perceptions of Baptists. Papers from the International Conference on Baptist Studies VI (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster Press, 2015). 266 pp. plus index. Co-Editor with Rady Roldan-Figueroa and Brandon Frick. Exploring Christian Heritage: A Reader in History and Theology (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012). 239 pp. plus quizzes. Editor. Mullins, E. Y. The Axioms of Religion (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2010; original publication: 1908). 224 pp. plus indexes. I annotated the text and wrote an introductory chapter that assessed Mullins’ contribution to Baptist life. Barr, Beth Allison, Bill J. Leonard, Mikeal C. Parsons, and C. Douglas Weaver, eds. The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009). 904 pp. plus indexes. In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist Story (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2008). 278 pp. plus index. The Healer-Prophet, William Marrion Branham: A Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000). 180 pp. plus indexes. This is a paperback reprint of my 1987 book with the same name, with a new preface that updates the story and a new forward by David Edwin Harrell of Auburn University. **The paperback edition had a second printing in 2006. 2 Peer Reviewed: Articles “Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Origins of Baylor University.” Perspective in Religious Studies 47, 4 (Winter 2020): 435-459. Forward to Joao Chaves, O Racismo na História Batista Brasileira: Uma memória inconveniente do legado missionário (Brasília: Novos Dialogos, 2020), 9-14. “Baptist History and Pentecostalism.” Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion (September 21, 2020). https://canopyforum.org/2020/09/21/baptist-history-and- pentecostalism/ “Baptist Preaching Giant, John Claypool: A Theology of Ministry in Process.” Baptist History and Heritage 54 (Fall 2019): 70-86. Co-Author with Joao Chaves. “Baptists and Their Polarizing Ways: Transnational Polarization Between Southern Baptist Missionaries and Brazilian Baptists.” Review and Expositor 116, 2 (2019): 160-174. Guest Editor. For the Love of God: Honoring the Life and Work of E. Glenn Hinson (title of issue). American Baptist Quarterly 32, 3 (Fall 2018; appeared 2019). Issue included my article, “Christians Indebted to Glenn Hinson.” Pp. 280-284. “Baptists and the Interplay of Word/Spirit/Experience.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 45, 3 (2018): 239-49. “Baptists and Early Pentecostal Revivalism.” In William L. Pitts, Jr., ed. Baptists and Revivals: Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Baptist Studies (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018). Pg. 64-87. “Restoring the New Testament Church? Baptist Self-Perception(s) in America from the Mid- Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century.” In Mikeal Parsons and Richard Walsh, eds., “A Temple Not Made with Hands: Essays in Honor Naymond Keathley (Festschrift) (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018). Pg. 214-229. “How Baptists Understand Their Reformation Legacy: Representative Views From The Late 19th And Early 20th Centuries.” Baptist History and Heritage 52 (Fall 2017): 8-21. “Baptists and Spirit-led Experience.” Baptist History and Heritage 51 (Summer 2016): 4-22. “Samuel Eastman: 19th Century American Baptist (Pioneer) Missionary and Evangelist.” In Terry Wolever Long, ed., A Noble Company, Volume 5 (Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 2016). Pg. 573-592. 3 “E. Y. Mullins: Freedom of Conscience (1860-1928).” In Michael Williams, ed. Witnesses to the Baptist Heritage: Thirty-Five Baptists Every Christian Should Know (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2016). Pg. 128-135. “The Whitsitt Society: Celebrating Baptist Courage.” In Aaron Weaver, ed., CBF at 25: Stories of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (Macon, GA: Nurturing Faith, 2016). Pg. 180-184. Editor. Festschrift of Bill J. Leonard, Perspectives in Religious Studies 42, 2 (Summer 2015). Including C. Douglas Weaver, “Editorial Introduction: For Bill J. Leonard, Teacher and Friend.” Pg. 109-114. “McPhersonism? Aimee Semple McPherson and Her Baptist Opponents (and Supporters).” Perspectives in Religious Studies 42, 2 (Summer 2015): 127-142. “Restoring the New Testament Church? Baptist Self-Perception(s) in America from the Mid- Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries.” In C. Douglas Weaver, ed., Mirrors and Microscopes: Historical Perceptions of Baptists. Papers from the International Conference on Baptist Studies VI (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster Press, 2015). Pp. 129-148. “An Appreciative and Critical Review of Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists.” Pacific Journal of Baptist Research 10, 2 (November 2015): 6-11. Editor, Festschrift of Walter Shurden, Baptist History and Heritage 50, 1 (Spring 2015). Including C. Douglas Weaver, “A Tribute to Buddy Shurden,” pp. 4-9. “Baptist Ecclesiology in Historical Perspective.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 41, 3 (Fall 2014): 277-296. “Baptists, the Holy Spirit, and Corporate Worship.” American Baptist Quarterly 31 (Summer 2014): 179-198. “Baptists and Holiness in the Nineteenth Century: A Story Rarely Told.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 49, 1 (Spring 2014): 156-174. “William Fristoe (1742-1828): The Making of a Virginia Baptist Leader.” In Terry Wolever Long, ed., A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable Particular-Regular Baptists in America, Volume 4 (Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 2014). Pp. 83-112. “Baptist Ecclesiology from John Clarke to E. Y. Mullins: The Personal, The Communal, and the Eschatological.” Perspectives in Religious Studies (Fall 2013): 219-234. “David Thomas and the Regular Baptists in Colonial Virginia (reprint).” In Terry Wolever Long, ed., A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable Particular-Regular Baptists in America, Volume 3 (Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 2013). Pp. 307-332. 4 “Early English Baptists: Individual Conscience and Eschatological Ecclesiology.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 38, 4 (Summer 2011): 141-158. “Reuben Alley: The SBC Conflict and Academic Freedom.” Baptist History and Heritage 46, 2 (Summer 2011): 33-48. “A Stink in Your Nostrils? A Sermon on the Baptist Distinctive of the Believers’ Church.” In Brian C. Brewer, ed., Distinctly Baptist: Proclaiming Identity in a New Generation (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2011). Pp. 78-86. “E. Y. Mullins: Soul Competency and Social Ministry.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 36, 4 (Winter 2009): 445-460. “The Risk of Majority Faith.” Baptist History and Heritage 44, 3 (Summer/Fall 2009): 53-58. Co-Author with Pamela R. Durso. “So Many Books, So Little Time to Read: Baptist Historiography, 1979-2009.” Baptist History and Heritage 44, 2 (Spring 2009): 18-30. “Baptists and the First Amendment: A Historical Overview.” Baptist History and