A Century of Baptist Achievement (Classic Reprint)
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A History of Anti-Pedobaptism from the Rise of Pedobaptism to A.D. 1609
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Albert Henry Newman was an American church historian and educator.
Background
Albert Henry Newman was born on August 25, 1852 in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States. His paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Newman, was born in New Jersey, married in Virginia, and finally settled in Georgia. His son William had twenty-eight children, of whom John Blackstone Newman, Albert's father, was one of the older. After fighting in the Mexican War, the latter settled in Edgefield, South Carolina. On the maternal side, Albert's grandfather was Henry Whitaker, born in Connecticut in 1790, but in after years a resident of South Carolina. His daughter Harriet married John Blackstone Newman at Edgefield in 1843; Albert was their third child. At the age of nine the boy was left motherless, in the care of his twelve-year-old sister Harriet. The father soon thereafter moved to Thomson, Georgia.
Education
Already known to be precocious, Albert made rapid progress in a private school taught by the Reverend E. A. Steed, pastor of the Baptist church. Young Newman excelled in Latin, Greek, arithmetic, and orthography. In 1869 he entered Mercer University as a junior. Here he found a small but able faculty and a curriculum not different from that of the average denominational college. Extracurricular studies were provided, however, by the Reverend J. J. Brantley, professor of belles-lettres and modern languages, and through his instruction Newman became proficient in German. He was graduated at the head of his class in 1871. In 1872 he entered Rochester Theological Seminary, much to the surprise of his Southern friends, whose prejudice against the North he did not share. Here he soon attracted the attention and won the regard of President Augustus H. Strong, and was greatly influenced by Professor Horatio B. Hackett.
Newman graduated from the seminary in 1875 and was contemplating going to Germany for further study when Dr. Crawford H. Toy and Dr. John A. Broadus, professors in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Greenville, South Carolina, persuaded him to go there and specialize in Semitic and Oriental languages.
Career
In 1877, Newman was invited to join the faculty at Rochester Theological Seminary and he served there as acting professor, 1877-80, and as Pettingill professor of church history, 1880-81. Almost simultaneously with his call to Rochester he was offered the chair of Hebrew at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Morgan Park, Chicago, a position which ultimately went to Dr. William Rainey Harper.
In 1881 Newman was chosen first professor of church history at Toronto Baptist College, which in 1887 united with Woodstock College to form McMaster University, Toronto, Canada. Here he remained until 1901 and during this period did much of the writing which won him wide recognition. His published works brought him to the notice of Dr. B. H. Carroll at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, who was endeavoring to assemble the best possible faculty for a new seminary in the Southwest, and at Carroll's request Newman went to Baylor, where he was professor of church history from 1901 to 1908, and later to the new Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Forth Worth, Texas, of which he was dean from 1908 to 1913. Returning to Baylor, he again taught there from 1913 to 1921. In the latter year he was elected to the chair of church history in the newly formed seminary at Mercer University, which he occupied until 1929, when he became professor emeritus. He was guest professor at the University of Chicago, 1906 and 1926; at Vanderbilt University, 1917-18; and at McMaster University 1927-29; he also delivered courses of lectures on "The Anabaptist Movement" at Rochester, Newton, and Crozer seminaries.
As editor and author he made valuable contributions, especially in the field of church history. He edited Hermeneutics of the New Testament (1877), a translation of the work of Albert Immer which he himself made, and collaborated in the preparation of Memoir of Daniel Arthur McGregor (1891). He was the editor of "The Anti-Manich'an Writings" of St. Augustine, in Philip Schaff's A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church vol. IV, (1887), translated three of the seven writings, and wrote an introductory essay, "The Manich'an Heresy. " He was the author of A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States (1894, revised edition, 1915) in the American Church History Series; A History of Anti-Pedobaptism (1897); and was the editor and in part the author of A Century of Baptist Achievement (1901). He contributed the chapter on "Protestantism in North America" to Der Protestantismus am Ende d. XIX Jahrhunderts in Wort und Bild and numerous articles to practically all the important American encyclopedias and dictionaries of religion and ethics published in his day.
He never entirely recovered from the effects of having been struck by an automobile, and died in Austin, Texas, where he made his home after his retirement in 1929.
Achievements
Newman made a contribution to the history of Anabaptism in the Reformation time.
Of all his writings the best known is A Manual of Church History, which went through sixteen editions.
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Connections
During the second year of his seminary course, July 15, 1873, he married Mary Augusta Ware of Seale, Alabama, by whom he had four children, Horatio, Elizabeth, Henry, and Albert.
