Re: McCalla on Campbell's NT
Jim McMillan
Kind regards,
Jamey,My apologies for not being able (yet) to give you the periodical information for McCalla's comments on A. Campbell's NT. Much of my collection is in storage now and the periodicals are among those that are in storage. I mistakenly thought the periodicals in question were still on my shelves.When we finish remodeling our basement, I will again have enough shelf space available to hold the entire collection. At that time I will be able to give you the citation.Kind regards,Jim
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Jim McMillan
After I wrote you last night, I discovered that PDF versions of the
five articles are available for download via the American Periodicals
Series Online. Do you have access to a library that subscribes to that
database?
On the topic of Baptist reaction to Campbell's NT, and in particular,
Acts 2:38, here's a footnote from page 136 of Justin Almerin Smith, A
History of the Baptists in the Western States East of the Mississippi:
1 Simply as a phase of past controversy—or what is mainly thus of the
past—it may be of interest to note the translation given by Mr.
Campbell in his version of the New Testament, of a passage in the Acts
of the Apostles (2 : 38), which in the debates was more or less a
crucial one. The verse is made to read, "Reform and be each of you
immersed in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to the remission of
your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." The
word which we print in italics, Mr. Campbell held to express more
exactly the force of the Greek [the Greek word was here but the OCR
garbled it JM] (metanoeo), than the word "repent." He quotes in an
appendix to his version, with approval, the rendering of the Bishop's
Bible, about the beginning of the sixteenth century, "Amend your
lives, and be baptized, every one of you," etc. Among lexicographers,
of course, there is no difference of opinion as to the meaning of the
Greek word in question, as implying "change of mind," intimated in the
word "repent" as commonly used. The Campbellite version, however, "
reform" or "amend your lives," while clearly incorrect, implied a
point of doctrine which was vital to the controversy.
That same page mentions the 1830 Silver Creek Church resolution:
"In some instances it appears to have been thought necessary to make
encouragement of the new teaching a matter of personal discipline, at
least so far as is implied in the resolution adopted by Silver Creek
Church, the first of Baptist churches to be organized in Indiana. The
resolution adopted in 1830 declares : 'This church deems it disorder
to invite any preacher to preach or administer in the church among us,
who is of the pretended reformation, or who vindicates or circulates
Alexander Campbell's pamphlets, or his new translation of the New
Testament.'"
Coincidentally, I happened on this while searching for references to
J.S. Sweeney's debates this morning.
Jim
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:05 AM, James Gorman <james....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jim,
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> This is great! Thanks so much for finding this information for me. I will certainly put it to use. I'll be presenting a paper on Campbell's Contentions with the King James Bible at the King James Conference at Baylor this spring. That will constitute the first part of a research project whose focus will be on responses (especially Baptist) to Campbell's revision. All of that to say, this information will be very helpful!
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> Thanks,
> Jamey