Background
Walter Conner was born on January 19, 1877, in Cleveland County, Arkansas. He was the son of Philip and Frances Conner. When Conner was 15, his family moved to Texas.
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Walter Conner studied at Hardin-Simmons University.
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Walter Conner studied at Baylor University. He got a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts.
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Walter Conner studied at Southwestern Baptist Seminary. He got a Bachelor of Theology.
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Walter Conner studied at Rochester Theological Seminary. He got a Bachelor of Divinity.
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Walter Conner studied at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He got a Doctor of Theology and a Doctor of Philosophy.
(A relatively brief but comprehensive history of Christian...)
A relatively brief but comprehensive history of Christianity. Includes stories of the martyrs, councils, reformers, doctrines, missionary ventures. Covers the entire scope of how Christianity began and what it has become.
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1937
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Walter Conner was born on January 19, 1877, in Cleveland County, Arkansas. He was the son of Philip and Frances Conner. When Conner was 15, his family moved to Texas.
Walter Conner attended Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University) in 1896-1898. Besides, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1906 and a Master of Arts in 1908 from Baylor University. In 1908, Conner for a Bachelor of Theology from Southwestern Baptist Seminary. He also earned a Bachelor of Divinity from Rochester Seminary in 1910. Moreover, he graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he received a Doctor of Theology in 1916 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1931.
Walter Conner was pastor of several churches. He was a pastor of the church in Tuscola in 1898-1899 and also in Eagle Lake, Rock Island, East Bernard, Blum, Rio Vista, Godley, and Handley. While a student at Rochester, Conner served at the Baptist church in Westville, New York. He also was the first pastor of Seminary Hill Baptist Church (now Gambrell Street Baptist Church) in Fort Worth.
In the Southern Baptist Convention, Walter Conner often lectured at conferences and assemblies and spoke at state and national conventions. The Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board utilized him as a counselor and advisor in selecting missionary candidates.
Walter Conner's enduring legacy to Southern Baptist life lies in his thirty-nine-year teaching career at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He joined Southwestern in 1910 when the school moved from Waco to Seminary Hill (now in Fort Worth). In the classroom, Conner endeavored to make theology practical rather than speculative. In the faculty, his recommendations for prospective teachers were equivalent to administrative approval, and in the administration, his long tenure provided continuity from the first president to the third. Systematic theology was Conner's primary responsibility, and he soon distinguished himself as the preeminent Southern Baptist theologian during the 1930s and 1940s. As a theologian, he was at home among both laymen and scholars. Conner's lectures and books were written with the layman in mind but displayed an underlying academic depth and extensive knowledge of his field. Besides, in 1946 he delivered the Wilkinson Lectures at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, and also, he was an instructor in Latin at Baylor University.
As a writer, Walter Conner was the author of fifteen books and numerous articles for professional journals and other periodicals. His theological works reflect a biblical rather than a systematic approach. Conner's complete theological system is best expressed in his works Revelation and God and The Gospel of Redemption.
(A relatively brief but comprehensive history of Christian...)
1937(The book was published after Walter Conner's death in 1952.)
1957(The book was published after Walter Conner's death in 1952.)
1954When Walter Conner was 15, he was baptized at the Harmony Baptist Church in Texas. He was a temperate Calvinist and said little about the issue of biblical inspiration. Conner's views switched from postmillennialism to amillennialism in due time. Besides, he affirmed that the scriptures are God's word and God's work, yet he was careful to allow for the human agency of the biblical writers. As to whether the Bible is a divine book or a human book, Conner answered, "it is both."
Walter Conner was an adherent of personalism, his theology stressed the moral self-consistency of the divine attributes, and he continually attempted to engage the issues of the modern world of theology. Conner's work thus took place on two fronts as he confronted fundamentalism on the one hand and liberalism on the other. He sought a middle‐road course in his discussions of divine revelation and the relationship of science and the Bible. Yet, Connor maintained that the religious teachings of the Bible are not invalidated by a change in scientific views. He also rejected the concept of scientific evolution, even in its theistic form. Besides, Conner emphasized the Bible's divine origin and absolute authority in all matters spiritual. His classic views of Christology continued throughout his four-decade career at Southwestern, as can be seen in his Gospel of Redemption. He began his teaching as a postmillennialist but concluded his career as an amillennialist. Conner affirmed the reality of heaven and hell, rejecting restorationism and annihilationism.
Quotations: "We cannot for a moment admit the view of evolution that leaves God out and holds that without God's creative power or superintending guidance the universe came uncaused out of nothing, and has kept on evolving until it produced man."
Walter Conner married Blanche Ethel Horne on June 4, 1907. They had six children, Neppie Leo, John Davis, Blanche Ray, Mary Irene, Sarah Frances, and Arnette Conner.