John Albert Broadus, who trained a generation of Southern Baptist preachers, dies - March 16
Patriarch Dositheos Notaras issues a confession of faith in conjunction with the Synod of Jerusalem in which he rejects the Calvinistic interpretation of Orthodoxy.
1190 - To evade debts, York's Gentry incited a mob against Jews.
1672 - Patriarch Dositheos Notaras issues a confession of faith in conjunction with the Synod of Jerusalem. In it, he rejects the Calvinistic interpretation of Orthodoxy developed decades earlier by Cyril Lucaris. Although couched as his views, 68 bishops sign it with him.
1889 - Death in Menton, France, of Alfred Edersheim, a Jew who had converted to Christianity and written several books. He will be remembered for “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah” (1883).
1895 - Death in Kentucky of John Albert Broadus, who trained a generation of Southern Baptist preachers. In 1858 Broadus was asked to become a member of the faculty of the new Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Though he had a part in planning the institution, he declined the offer because of his attachment to preaching and pastoral work. After months of struggling with the decision, he agreed to become a member of the first faculty when the seminary opened in Greenville, S. C., in 1859. For the next 36 years, he was a professor of New Testament interpretation and homiletics, and his life was inextricably bound to the school.
1909 - Death in Wales of Marianne Hearn, a Baptist teacher, author, and hymn writer. She will be remembered for the hymn “Just As I Am Thine Own to Be.”
2005 - Death in Nigeria of Lawrence Olanrewaju Cole Jayesimi, who overcame the disability of blindness to operate a business, obtain advanced degrees, pastor a Baptist church, and educate the blind.
– Sources: Christian History Institute, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives