This special collection features books written by various friends and associates of Taylor University.
Historical Context Statement
The Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections of Taylor University makes a variety of historical materials publicly available to the Taylor community, scholarly researchers, and the general public. Some of these materials may include content (e.g., images, negative stereotypes, language) that viewers find objectionable for a variety of reasons. It is important for viewers to consider the time period and historical context in which the materials were created when consulting historical materials.
Resources exist to aid viewers in contextualizing historical materials (e.g., a list of questions to consider when putting sources into historical context from the University of Minnesota).
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Authentic Voices: Women of Insight Talk about Real-Life Challenges
Jewell Reinhart Coburn and Joyce Smith Helyer
Women's voices, with their clear potential to contribute to the essential composition and continuance of many of the most revered and longed for values in human life, have not always been easy to hear.
But, no more - not as we journey into the new millennium. Authentic Voices: Women of Insight Talk About Real-Life Challenges places women's considerable capability fully within the massive paradigm shift predicted following World War II, launched with zest in the '60s and '70s, and becoming ever more normative now in the 21st century.
Perhaps both in spite of, as well as because of, events that have transpired historically, religiously, and culturally, women's voices can be more readily heard and their messages of peace, civility, stability, and compassion - vital complements to existing forces - can now be acknowledged.
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A Vine of God's Own Planting: A History of Fort Wayne Bible College
Jared F. Gerig
The story of Fort Wayne Bible College upon the commemoration of its 75th anniversary: 1904-1979
A venture of faith in biblical higher education.
It is sincerely hoped that this recounting of seventy-five years of Bible College history will not only bring back memories, but that it will stimulate our faith, revive our loyalties, and once again make us active partners by prayer and giving in a great cause, the continued training of young people for Christian ministries at home and overseas.
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Basic Basketball
Don J. Odle
This book is written with the intention that it may be of some help to a group of men who are dealing with our most valuable possession...our youth. It is by no means written with the idea that it represents an exhaustive book of reference. It is therefore just the compilation of a few ideas that have been formulated in the author's mind for the past several years as a player and a coach.
This book is dedicated to a group of young men who meet every Monday night to thank God for the opportunities that they have in athletics to grow physically, mentally, and spiritually.
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Basic Harmonic Techniques
Hilda L. Steyer
True to its title this text is basic and may be geared to any or all styles of writing from the Baroque period through the nineteenth century. It is possible to use it for a one-term concentrated course, or for a one or two year program, depending upon the demands of the school curriculum. It has been designed specifically for use in the course-credit system, even though adaptable to the more traditional procedures just mentioned.
Through years of teaching basic theory this presentation has developed due to intelligent inquiries from sincere students who desire to know the why, where, who and how of theoretical development.1969
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Basketball Around the World
Don J. Odle
Basketball Around the World is divided into two parts. The first includes the span of basketball, the history of basketball, the result of a survey of basketball around the world, and a report of Olympic basketball, including experiences coaching the Chinese Olympic Team. The second part deals with the techniques, strategy, and administration of basketball. By including local and international experiences of the game, Basketball Around the World is presented.
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Basketball Basics
Don J. Odle
It has been an interesting experience to me to observe how people learn. Many times we have seen high school and college athletes who play just like their older brothers...they have learned through imitation. Some of our college ball players have certain habits in footwork and as we question them further they respond that their high school coach taught it that way. We have tried to record in this book many experiences with basketball players hoping that the readers of this book might learn something to help them improve some technique of the game or some technique of life.
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Christian Adventures in South Africa
William Taylor
“The numerous facts and incidents contained in this volume are illustrative, first, of the history, extent, resources, population, and varied life of South Africa; and second, of Christian adventures in South Africa, in great variety, through a period of fifty years, but especially of the recent great work of God in Cape Colony, Kaffraria, and Natal.” - Author’s Preface
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Coach Odle's Full Court Press: Taylor University & Sports Evangelism
Jessica Rousselow-Winquist and Alan H. Winquist
The year 2002 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Venture for Victory (VV) by Don Odle, former basketball coach at Taylor University. Coach Odle's Full Cort Press describes this man's role as the central figure in the unfolding early development of sports evangelism which began with a simple phone call in February 1952. Despite daunting obstacles, Coach Odle successfully displayed "the power of one" by seizing the opportunity to bring a Christian basketball team to East Asia during the summer of 1952. From that humble beginning, VV's fame gradually spread. "The power of one" was transformed into "the power of many." Today using athletics as a means to further Christ's message has become a worldwide phenomenon. Don Odle can rightfully be called "the father of sports evangelism."
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God's Ordinary People: No Ordinary Heritage
Jessica L. Rousselow and Alan H. Winquist
Preface Excerpt: The authors see two main streams flowing through Taylor University's history. First, from its inception as Fort Wayne Female College in 1846, there has been a commitment to equal educational opportunities for both genders and for all economic classes. In the nineteenth century, classical studies formed the core of the curriculum. In the twentieth century, the liberal arts commitment has remained central. The second stream is the focus on Christian service nationally and internationally. During the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, most of the Christian service was sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, currently identified as The United Methodist Church. The international thrust centers on the life of Bishop William Taylor for whom the school was renamed in 1890. It is the thesis of this volume that the meshing of these two points has made Taylor University unique in Christian higher education. The six chapters in this book are arranged around these streams.
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Holiness and the Greek Tongue
Newton Wray
The advent of Jesus Christ occurred at a date described as "the fulness of time," signifying not only an hour for the fulfillment of prophecy but also that providential preparation which predisposed to the reception of Christianity and facilitated its spread among men.
The factors in this preparation may be included under four general heads:
1. The moral state of the world.
2. The Roman Empire.
3. The Greek language.
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How to Be Saved and How to Save the World
William Taylor
Preface: As a memorial, and partial embodiment of my preaching in the Colonies of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, for the last two and-half years, and as a means of usefulness, under the Holy Spirit, in connection with the prayers, testimony, and labors of my Christian friends in these colonies, I leave behind me this volume, to speak to the present generation when I am gone from them, and to speak to their children when I am dead.
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“III Score & X” Or Selections Collections and Recollections of Seventy Busy Years
Silas Comfort Swallow
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IV Score & More: Or Other Selections Collections and Recollections of Eighty-Three Busy Years
Silas Comfort Swallow
Largely a Compilation Supplement to “III Score & X”
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Letters to Young Scholars: An Introduction to Christian Thought
William Carey Ringenberg
With a foreword by Jay Kesler.
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My Book, My Poem, My Song
Bob Hill
Here is a classic story which is both challenging and inspiring to anyone who will open himself to God's leadership. From a shy farmboy in northwestern Ohio to graduation during the great Depression, to the presidency of one of America's great Christian universities, it is apparent that God's hand was guiding the life of Dr. Milo Rediger.
"Taylor is my book, my poem, my song," he once declared in an address as he modestly lamented his inability to excel in such personal interests as writing, composing and singing. His challenges and exploits were in another direction however and the reader will re-live them through the pages of this book.
This is no ordinary story! And Dr. Rediger is no ordinary man. Yet, he sees himself as one of the many players in God's great game-plan, simply following directions from his Heavenly Father.
Educators will especially appreciate excerpts from his philosophy of Christian Education which has been applied and proven successful in over thirty-eight years of dedicated service at Taylor University.
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Open to Reason
David L. Neuhouser
Open to Reason is a comparison of the roles of reason, experience, imagination, intuition, faith, love, humility, and obedience in mathematics and religion.
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Pauline Methods of Missionary Work
William Taylor
Preface: I have given in this little book a brief exhibit of the Pauline methods of missionary work. I make no invidious comparisons between the different bodies of workers in foreign countries, but leave all to make the application of the principles I here eliminate from the Word of God, according to the facts in each field of operation.
The Pauline principle of self-support we carry out fully in India and in South America, but in the latter field our workers are thus far fully occupied in grading down the hills and mountains, filling the valleys, making the crooked straight and the rough places plain, to prepare the way for the triumphal march of the King. I cannot say how soon we may there work effectively the Pauline evangelizing methods. Our friends will please pray for us, and give us time to lay a good foundation and demonstrate in their turn all the principles embodied in this little volume. It will be seen that in the space of ten months we have sent to Burmah, India, and South America thirty Missionary workers, at a cost, for passage, school furniture and freights, the sum of $8,691.41, which has been cheerfully sent in by the friends of this movement.
