John T. Christian

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John Taylor Christian (1854–1925) was a Baptist preacher, author and educator. Christian served as a pastor in Kentucky and Arkansas, and was professor of Church History at the Baptist Bible Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana (renamed the "New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary" in 1946). He played a major role in the controversies surrounding the restorationist views of Baptist history taught by William Whitsitt in the Southern Baptist Seminary of Louisville, writing extensive rebuttals to Whitsitt's works and eventually publishing a history of the Baptists written from a successionist perspective.

The John T. Christian Library of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is named in his honor. According to the Seminary, "The basic collection came from the library of the outstanding church historian, John T. Christian, who was the first librarian of the seminary. He gave the school his personal library of 18,000 volumes when he joined the faculty in 1919."

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A History of the Baptists, Volume 1, 1922
A History of the Baptists, Volume 2, 1926
A History of the Baptists of Louisiana, Shreveport: Executive Board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention 1923
Did They Dip? An Examination into the Act of Baptism as Practiced by the English and American Baptists Before the Year 1641, Louisville: Baptist Book Concern, 1896
Baptist History Vindicated, Louisville: Baptist Book Concern 1899
Cose Communion, Louisville: Baptist Book Concern 1892
Immersion, The Act Of Christian Baptism, Louisville: Baptist Book Concern 1893
Primacy of State Missions co-author, State Secretaries of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1912
Americanism or Romanism, Which?
Blood of Jesus
Four Theories of Church Government
Heathen and Infidel Testimonies to Jesus Christ