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Benajah Harvey Carroll, known as B. H. Carroll (December 27, 1843 – November 11, 1914), was a Baptist pastor, theologian, teacher, and author. ==Biography== Carroll was born near Carrollton in Carroll County in north central Mississippi,〔J. B. Cranfill, "Life Sketch of B. H. Carroll," in Sermons and Life Sketch of B. H. Carroll, ed. J. B. Cranfill (Waco, Texas: American Baptist, 1895), 7.〕 one of twelve children to Benajah Carroll and the former Mary Eliza Mallard. His father was a Baptist minister. The family moved to Burleson County, Texas in 1858. Carroll served in the army of the Confederate States of America from 1862-1864.〔 In 1865, at the age of twenty two, he converted to Christianity at a Methodist camp meeting after taking up a preacher's challenge to experiment with Christianity.〔 In 1866, he took as a second wife the former Ellen Virginia Bell.〔 The first wife was divorced for her infidelity while Carroll was at war.〔 After her death, he married the former Hallie Harrison in 1899. Carroll was a denominational leader both in the Baptist General Convention of Texas (of which he was a leading founder) and the Southern Baptist Convention. Much of his rise to prominence developed through proving himself a formidable foe in controversy - including debates with Texas politicians, standing for board policies and convention authority in the Hayden controversy in the Baptist General Convention, and opposing the president of Southern Seminary during the Whitsitt controversy〔(The Worst Decision B. H. Carroll Never Made: Southern Seminary, the Whitsitt Controversy & the Quest for Institutional Accountability )〕〔(The Other Side of William Whitsitt )〕 at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. While Carroll had Landmark tendencies, he was not the champion of the Landmark Movement some have made him to be. Of the four major controversies involving Landmark ideas, Carroll sided against the Landmarkers in three of the four. Only in the Whitsitt controversy did Carroll side with Landmarkers and, for Carroll, that controversy was about trustee authority, not Landmark beliefs. Carroll's theology can best be described as moderately Calvinistic, postmillennial, and thoroughly Baptist. His postmillennialism was associated with neither the social engineering of Walter Rauschenbusch, nor the expectation that every soul in every community would be converted. Instead, Carroll held such a strong confidence in the work of the Holy Spirit, Christ's Vicar, that churches who accepted their role as God's instruments on earth would not ultimately fail in the Holy Spirit's mission to bring about the conversion of the vast majority of humanity, at which time Christ would return to fully institute His kingdom on earth.〔Carroll, "Interpretation of the English Bible-15," 29-30.〕 Carroll vehemently attacked Roman Catholicism for the papal claim that usurped the Holy Spirit's role as Christ's representative,〔Carroll, "Galatians, Romans, Philippians, Philemon," 34,247-8.〕 dispensational premillennialism for their pessimism about the success of the Holy Spirit and the success of churches,〔Carroll, "Biblical Addresses and Educational and Religious Addresses," ed. and comp. by J.W. Crowder (n.d.) 67.〕 the Restoration Movement for their reliance on human apprehension and denial of direct revelation, and modernism for the over-reliance on scientific method to the exclusion of Divine revelation and historical evidence.〔 He led in founding the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas in 1908, which moved from Waco to Fort Worth in 1910. He served as president of the seminary until his death. Carroll's younger brother, James Milton Carroll, was also an important Baptist leader in Texas. His son, B.H. Carroll Jr., would later become Tarrant County school superintendent and the namesake of the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas. Carroll published 33 volumes of works, and is best known for his 17-volume commentary, ''An Interpretation of the English Bible''. Benajah Harvey Carroll died November 11, 1914, and is buried at the Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benajah Harvey Carroll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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