{"id":683,"date":"2012-11-20T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=683"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:28:49","slug":"armour-rollin-stely-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"ARMOUR, ROLLIN STELY, 1929-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian of religion; university professor. Born&#8211; December 5, 1929, Miami, Fla. Parents&#8211; Thomas and Frankie (Calhoun) Armour. Married&#8211; Mary Anne Crum, May 30, 1957. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Baylor University, B.A., 1950; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1953; Harvard University, S.T.M., 1956; Th.D., 1963.\u00a0 U.S. Army Chaplain, 1953-55. \u00a0Taught at Stetson University, 1960-73; at\u00a0Auburn University (professor and department head), 1973-80; Mercer University, 1980-1998. Member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society for Church History, the Southern Baptist Historical Society, and the Florida Baptist Historical Society. With his wife, Dr. Mary Anne Armour, established the Armour Family Therapy Lecture Series at Mercer University Medical School in 1998. Received the Brewer Award from the American Society for Church History, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976-1977; Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed.; and Writer&#8217;s Directory, 1976-1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anabaptist Baptism, a Representative Study. Scottsdale, Pa.; Herald Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Islam, Christianity, and the West:\u00a0 A Troubled History.\u00a0 Maryknoll, NY:\u00a0 Orbis Books, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perspectives on Christian Ethics; Essays in Honor of Henlee Hulix Burnette.\u00a0 Macon; Mercer University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of the First Baptist Church of Christ at Macon; Macon, Georgia, 1826-1968.\u00a0 Macon, GA; Southern Press, 1968-89.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 11-16-2012 by Nancy DuPree<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian of religion; university professor. Born&#8211; December 5, 1929, Miami, Fla. Parents&#8211; Thomas and Frankie (Calhoun) Armour. Married&#8211; Mary Anne Crum, May 30, 1957. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Baylor University, B.A., 1950; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1953; Harvard University, S.T.M., 1956; Th.D., 1963.\u00a0 U.S. Army Chaplain, 1953-55. \u00a0Taught at Stetson University, 1960-73; at\u00a0Auburn University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}