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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author wishes to express appreciation to Baylor University Professors Glenn 0. Hilburn,
James E. Wood, Jr., and Lyle C. Brown for their patience and helpful directions which enabled
him to conduct proper research, to evaluate critically and compile his findings, and to put his
findings and conclusions in acceptable form. Moreover, Mrs. Mary Hughes, who came to the
rescue on short notice, deserves special commendation for her editing and typing. Especially
helpful in securing necessary research materials were the Baylor University Library staff,
particularly Mrs. Jean Tolbert, Tidwell Bible Librarian, and Miss Estaline Cox, Reference and
Documents Librarian. The author is grateful to President Gerald D. Kellar and Dean W. J.
Dorman of the North American Theological Seminary of Jacksonville, Texas, for arranging his
teaching schedule in a manner which permitted him to pursue his graduate studies at Baylor
University, 1964-1966.
The genesis of the thesis actually began in the academic year of 1964-1965. In seminars of
Professors C. W. Christian and James E. Wood, Jr., the author presented reports delineating
various aspects of sixteenth century Anabaptist theology. Being a Baptist, the author began to
speculate concerning the precise relationship of seventeenth century English Baptists and
Continental Anabaptists. Resultant growing interest in these movements and subsequent
conferences with Professors Wood and Hilburn led to the selection, in October, 1965, of the
following study. Since a detailed exposition of the three basic theories of Baptist origins would
have been of greater scope than desirable in a thesis for a Master of Arts degree, the study was
limited, therefore, to "A Critique of the English Separatist Descent Theory in Baptist
Historiography."
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