{"id":1325,"date":"2013-01-22T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2018-04-25T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:08:15","slug":"guffin-gilbert-lee-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"GUFFIN, GILBERT LEE, 1906-1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist minister; educator. Born&#8211; August 5, 1906, near Marietta, Ga. Parents&#8211; William Thomas and Nora (Eubanks) Guffin. Education&#8211; Mercer University, A.B., 1930; B.D., 1935; Th.M. (1936) and Th.D. (1941), Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Married&#8211; Lorene Parrish on August 30, 1930. Children&#8211; Two. Principal, junior high school, Mableton Ga., 1927-1928; in Marietta, 1930-1933. Ordained in Baptist Church, 1927; served churches in Marietta, 1928-1933; Merchantville, N.J., 1935-1942; Jasper, Ala., 1942-1947. Served as dean of Baptist Seminars, Walker College, 1942-1947; founder and director of Extension Division at Howard College, 1947-1949; president, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1950-1961; founder and president of Eastern College in Philadelphia, 1961; Dean of Religion, Samford University, 1961-1971. Trustee of Eastern Baptist College and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1961.\u00a0Honorary LL.D., Atlanta Law School, 1951; D.D., Mercer University, 1955; L.H.D. Eastern College, 1972. Freedoms Foundation Awards, a960 and 1961.Died July 12, 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible; God&#8217;s Missionary Message to Man. 2 vols. Birmingham, Ala.; Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Called of God; the Work of the Ministry. Westwood, N.J.; Revell, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The Gospel in Isaiah. Nashville; Convention Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>How to Run a Church; or, Guides in Church Administration. Birmingham, Ala.; Howard College, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor and Church; a Manual for Pastoral Leadership. Nashville; Broadman, 1955.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What God Hath Wrought; Easter&#8217;s First Thirty-Five Years. Chicago; Judson Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight Evangelistic Sermons.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Harper, 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baptist minister; educator. Born&#8211; August 5, 1906, near Marietta, Ga. Parents&#8211; William Thomas and Nora (Eubanks) Guffin. Education&#8211; Mercer University, A.B., 1930; B.D., 1935; Th.M. (1936) and Th.D. (1941), Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Married&#8211; Lorene Parrish on August 30, 1930. Children&#8211; Two. Principal, junior high school, Mableton Ga., 1927-1928; in Marietta, 1930-1933. Ordained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7901,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/7901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}