Oral M emoirs of Albert Benjamin Oliver

Author(s)
Oliver, Albert Benjamin
Contributor(s)
Spain, Rufus B.
Keywords
Baptists--Missions--Brazil--History--20th century
Baptists--Brazil--History
Baptist theological seminaries--Brazil
Southern Baptist Convention--Missions--Brazil--History
Brazil--Church history--20th century

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/540883
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http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/u?/buioh,2227
Abstract
interviewed by Rufus B. Spain on 7 occasions from 27 June to 15 September 1975 in Waco, Texas.
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340 pages; index
A. Ben Oliver was a Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil; family history; religious background; family moves around Central Texas; education, Buckholts, Texas, Cameron [Texas] High School, and Baylor University; Baylor faculty; premed major; running track; recollections of football; call to mission field; grader to A. J. Armstrong; extensive recollections of Armstrong; major in English; J. Frank Norris: fundamentalism controversy; student preaching; marriage; dismissal from Baylor for marriage; graduation from Simmons College, Abilene, Texas; teaching and principalship, Santa Anna, Texas; part-time pastorates, Shields and Gouldbusk, Texas; education, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS); loss of savings in Great Depression; pastorates, Beech Grove, Union City, and Canner, Kentucky; tutor of English, SBTS; SBTS faculty and curriculum; appointment to Brazil; adoption by First Baptist Church, Birmingham; seminary classmates; recollections of W. A. Criswell as student; doctorate in Greek; informal language study; acculturation; voyage to Brazil; establishment of Instituto Batista A. B. Deter Seminary, Curitiba; status of Brazilian mission work; leadership of Americans- opposition to evangelical religion; work in villages; Brazilian hymnody; attack by Catholic mob in Santa Catarina; duties in Curitiba; preaching at state conventions on furlough; health problems; effect of World War II on mission work; Brazilian sympathy for Germany; church discipline; Brazilian economy; government corruption; desire to avoid administrative work; revision of Portuguese Bible; presidency, North Brazil Baptist Seminary; seminary physical plant; seminary supporters in Rio de Janeiro; socioeconomic characteristics of Brazilian Baptists; Brazilian politics; substitute duty in Angola; Portuguese colonialism in Angola; ministry in Angolan countryside; conversion of Angolans; Pentecostal movement in Brazil; retirement in Waco; teaching retired people; translation of books in Portuguese; poetry writing; American business people in Brazil; value of Brazilian seminary.
Date
1975
Type
Interview
Identifier
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http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/u?/buioh,2227
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