Dwain Waldrep

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Email : dwaldrep@sebc.edu

Dwain Waldrep has taught history at Southeastern Bible College since 1990.  Dwain’s historical interests include the history of early modern Europe, the history of American fundamentalism, and more recently the history of Ante-Nicene Christianity.  He also enjoys a good cup of coffee while reading nineteenth century British and Russian literature or anything written by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Among the books that have influenced Dwain’s thinking are Ernest Sandeen, The Roots of Fundamentalism; George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture; Henry F. May, The Enlightenment in America; David Wells, No Place for Truth; Roger Lundin, The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World; Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind; and Craig Gay, The Way of the Modern World: Why It's Temping to Live as if God Doesn't Exist. Some of his favorite fictional works are J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; and Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers.  He also enjoys Thomas Hardy’s poetry.

His published work includes:

             “Fundamentalism, Interdenominationalism, and the Birmingham School of the Bible, 1927-1941.” The Alabama Review 49 (January 1996): 29-54.

            “The Secularization of Higher Education in America: A Historiographical Essay.” Indian Journal of American Studies (Hyderabad) 28 (Winter 1998): 91-102.

            “Piety, Politics, and Southern Culture: J. J. Renfroe’s Lost Cause Ideology.” The Alabama Review 52 (July 1999): 192-224.

            “Henry Edmonds and His Conflict with the Southern Presbyterian Church, 1913-1915.” In The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society: An Anthology Honoring Marvin Yeomans Whiting, edited by James L. Baggett, 159-169. Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library and Birmingham Historical Society, 2000.

            “Bible Churches.” In Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. 2nd ed., edited by Samuel S. Hill and Charles H. Lippy. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005.

            “Fundamentalism.” In Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. 2nd ed., edited by Samuel S. Hill and Charles H. Lippy. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005.

            “Fundamentalism.” In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Vol. 1, Religion, edited by Samuel S. Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

            “Southeastern Bible College.” In Encyclopedia of Alabama Online. 2008.

            “J. J. D. Renfroe.” In Encyclopedia of Alabama Online. 2008.

            “Lewis Sperry Chafer and the Roots of Nondenominational Fundamentalism in the South.” Journal of Southern History 73: 807-836.

             “Dispensationalism.” In The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. Edited by George Thomas Kurian. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008.

         Review of High Church Baptist in the South: The Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism by James E. Tull. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000. The Alabama Review, January 2003.

        Review of Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925 by Charles A. Israel. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. The Journal of Southern History, February 2008.

         Review of Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South, by Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. The Journal of Southern History, May 2008.