Background
Tenney, Merrill Chapin was born on April 16, 1904 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Wallace Fay and Lydia Smith (Goodwin) Tenney.
Tenney, Merrill Chapin was born on April 16, 1904 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Wallace Fay and Lydia Smith (Goodwin) Tenney.
Graduate School), 1946-1971.
Ordained to ministry Baptist Church, 1928. Pastor (Storrs Avenue Church), Braintree, Massachusetts, 1926-1928. Member of faculty Gordon College, 1930-1943, professor New Testament and Greek, 1938-1943.
Member of faculty Wheaton (III) College, from 1943, professor Bible and theology, from 1945.
Dean Wheaton (III) College (Graduate School), 1946-1971. Spring lecturer Goshen (Indiana) College, 1950.
Middle Winter lectures Western Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary, 1951. Griffith Thomas lecturer Dallas Theological Seminary, 1962.
Lecturer Denver Baptist Seminary, 1964, Grace Theological Seminary, 1974.
Past chairman educational commission National Society Evangs.
Author: Resurrection Realities, 1945, John: The Gospel of Belief, 1948, Galatians. The Charter of Christian Liberty, 1950, The Genius of the Gospels, 1951, The New Testament: A Survey, 1953, Philippians, 1956, Interpreting Revelation, 1957, Proclaiming the New Testament. The Reality of the Resurrection, 1963, New Testament Times, 1965, Roads a Christian Must Travel, 1979, Twelve Questions Jesus Asked, 1980.
Editor: The Word for this Century, 1960, Pictorial Bible Dictionary, The Bible: The Living Word of Revelation, 1967, Pictorial Bible Ency, 1975, The Bible Almanac, 1980.
Member Society Biblical Research, Society Biblical Lits. and Exegesis, Evangelical Theological Society (president 1950-1951), Near East Archaeological Society, Phi Alpha Chirurgical
Married Helen Margaret Jaderquist, September 5, 1930. Children: Robert Wallace, Philip Chapin.