Contributions of William Owen Carver to the missions movement among Southern Baptists: William Owen Carver was professor of Christian missions at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1896 to 1943. More than anyone else, he shaped the theology of mission for Southern Baptists.

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He became head of the seminary's department of missions in 1900, helped in the establishment of the Woman's Missionary Union Training School in 1907 (changed to the Carver School of Missions and Social Work in 1953), and wrote more than twenty books that both laid the theological and philosophical ground for Southern Baptists in missions and motivated thousands of students, pastors, and lay persons to support missions. Most notable of these books is his Missions in the Plan of the Ages (1909). Carver attracted to his classes, especially at the graduate level, some of the ...

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