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April 1904 A.D. Mr.
(Rev. Dr. Prof.) Merrill C. Tenney was born April 16, 1904.
Merrill
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(April 16, 1904 – March 18, 1985) was
an American professor of New
Testament and Greek and author of several books. He was the
general editor of the Zondervan Pictorial Bible
Dictionary, and served on the original translation team for the New American
Standard Bible.[1]
Background and education
Tenney
was born April 16, 1904 in Chelsea,
Massachusetts, to Wallace Fay Tenney and Lydia Smith Goodwin.[2] He earned a
diploma from Nyack Missionary Training Institute (1924),[3] his Th.B.
from Gordon College of
Theology and Missions (1927), his A.M. from Boston University
(1930), and his Ph.D.
in Biblical and Patristic Greek from Harvard University (1944).[4] He married Helen
Margaret Jaderquist (1904–1978) in 1930,[5] and together they
had two sons, Robert Wallace and Philip Chapin.[2]Academic career
Tenney briefly served as pastor of
Storrs Avenue Baptist Church in Braintree,
Massachusetts (1926–1928), and began teaching at Gordon College while
still a student there.[3] After graduation,
he joined the faculty and was professor of New Testament and Greek until moving
to Wheaton College in 1944, where he would eventually become dean of the graduate school from
1947 to 1971. Tenney was Henry Clarence Thiessen's chosen associate[clarification needed] and (accordingly) an advocate of fundamentalism.[6] He retired in
1977, but continued teaching as professor emeritus until 1982.[3]
Legacy and death
In 1951, Tenney became the second
president of the Evangelical
Theological Society. In 1975, a volume of essays entitled
Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation (ISBN
0802834426) was published in his honor. Tenney died in Wheaton on
March 18, 1985.[3]
Selected publications
- John: The Gospel of Belief (1948, 1997) ISBN 0-8028-4351-4
- Galatians: The Charter of Christian Liberty (1957, 1989) ISBN 0-8028-0449-7
- Philippians: The Gospel at Work (1956)
- Interpreting Revelation (1957, 1988) ISBN 0-8028-0421-7
- New Testament Survey (1961, 1985) ISBN 0-8028-3611-9
- Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Dictionary, with J. D. Douglas (1964, 1988) ISBN 0-310-23560-X
- New Testament Times (1967, 2001) ISBN 1-56563-657-0
- Roads a Christian Must Travel (1979) ISBN 0842356754
- 12 Questions Jesus Asked (1980) ISBN 088207346X
Further reading
- Elwell, Walter A.; Jim D. Weaver (1999). Bible interpreters of the twentieth century: a selection of evangelical voices. Baker Books. ISBN 0-8010-2073-5.
References
2.
^ a b Tenney, Merrill
Chapin; Gerald F. Hawthorne (1975). Current issues in Biblical and patristic
interpretation. Eerdmans. pp. 15–18. ISBN 0-8028-3442-6.
4.
^ "Merrill C. Tenney Papers, 1927–1982". Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
5.
^ "Papers
of Mrs. Helen Margaret Jaderquist Tenney – Collection 44". Billy Graham Center Archives. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
6.
^ Keith Call Thiessen and Determinism’s cold and chilling effects. Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections.
Quote: "Responding with a letter to Buswell, Thiessen recounts his own
impressive academic qualifications and that “…there may be a way of realizing
my ideal at Wheaton College.” Specifically, this meant an ambition to establish
“…a first class theological school of the fundamentalist and premillennial type
in the North…” .... As the curriculum solidified and expanded, he chose Dr.
Merrill Tenney as his associate."
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