10 CURRICULUM VITAE ROBERT SYDNEY WILSON Personal Birth July

10 curriculum vitae robert sydney wilson personal: birth: july 23, 1943 married: myrna m. secord, february 6, 1965 childr

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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERT SYDNEY WILSON
Personal:
Birth: July 23, 1943
Married: Myrna M. Secord, February 6, 1965
Children: Jonathan, b. 1971; Rachel, b. 1972
Citizenship: Canadian
Education:
High School:
United Baptist Bible Training School, Moncton, New Brunswick, 1960
Universities:
Gordon College, Wenham, Mass. B.A. in History, 1964
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, M.A. in History, 1967
Ph.D. in British History, 1973
Professional Experience:
Part‑time Mathematics Teacher, U.B.B.T.S., 1961‑1962
Teacher in High School History, Biology, Bible and Chemis­try,
U.B.B.T.S., 1964‑1965
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Guelph, 1965‑1970
Lecturer, University of Guelph, 1970‑1971
Courses: Modern Britain ‑ 1890 to Present
British History ‑ 1603 to 1965
Lecturer, Gordon College European Seminar, Summers 1968 and 1970
Academic Dean, Atlantic Baptist College, 1971‑1989
Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Atlantic Baptist
College, 1989‑1991
Lecturer in History, Atlantic Baptist College, 1971‑1973
Assistant Professor of History, Atlantic Baptist College, 1973‑1976
Associate Professor of History, Atlantic Baptist College, 1976‑1982
Professor of History, Atlantic Baptist College, 1982‑1991
Sessional Lecturer in Church History, Acadia Divinity College, Fall
1984
Associate Professor of Church History, Acadia Divinity College,
1991‑1993
Professor of Church History, Acadia Divinity College, 1993 - Present
Scholar in Residence, Atlantic Baptist University, 1996‑1997
Director of the M.A. Program, Acadia Divinity College, 1992- Present
Director of Continuing Education, Acadia Divinity College, 1996-1999
Coordinator of Conferences, Acadia Divinity College, 1999 – Present
Editorial Board of Atlantic Baptist Heritage Series, 1977 ‑ Present
Chairman: 1995 ‑ Present
Awards:
Student of the Year, United Baptist Bible Training School, 1961
Ontario Graduate Fellowships, 1965‑1971
Distinction Ranking for Doctoral Studies
(Highest Award Granted for Ph.D.Thesis at University of Guelph)
Alumnus of the Year Award, Atlantic Baptist College, 1975
Atlantic Baptist University Leadership Award, 1999
SSHRC Grant, 1995
Church Leadership Experience:
Summer Student Pastor in Atlantic Canada:
Grangeville Field, New Brunswick, 1960
Brentwood Baptist Church, Moncton, New Brunswick, 1961,1962
Student Pastor: Grangeville Baptist Church, 1961‑1962
Student Ministry Teams and College Choirs, 1957‑1964
Interim Pastor:
Lewisville United Baptist Church, 1978‑1979
Stoney Creek United Baptist Church, Fall 1979
Hillsborough United Baptist Church, 1980
Riverview United Baptist Church, Fall 1980 to July 1981
Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Fall 1982 - June 1983
Highfield Street United Baptist Church, Fall 1983 ‑ May 1984
Uplands United Baptist Church, September 1984 ‑ May 1985
Sunny Brae United Baptist Church, September 1985 ‑ May 1986
Dundas United Baptist Church, May 1987 ‑ June 1988
Moncton Congregational Church, Fall 1990 - Spring 1991
Denominational Positions in United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic
Provinces:
Board of Ministerial Standards and Education, 1975‑1982
Board of Publication, 1975‑1980, 1982‑1985, 1988‑1995
Chairman: 1976‑1979, 1982‑1984, 1989‑1992
Convention Council, 1976‑1979, 1982‑1984, 1989‑1992 1997-2000
Board of Evangelism, 1976‑1977, 1982‑1984
Board of Social Action, 1977‑1979
Board of Stewardship, 1989‑1992
Baptist Historical Committee, 1973 ‑ Present
Chairman: 1988‑1990
Chair of Search Committee for Director of Evangelism, 1984
Chair of Search Committee for Editor of the Atlantic Baptist, 1984
Search Committee for Director of Communications, 1989
Committee for Final Draft of the Paper on Ordination adopted in 1989
Committee on Rural Church, 1988‑1995
Vice-President of Convention 1997-1998
President of Convention 1998-1999
Past-President of Convention 1999-2000
Association Positions in Westmorland - Kent Association:
Evangelism Commission, 1975‑78
Association Historian, 1985‑89
Ministerial Standards and Education Commission, 1989‑1992
Local Church Involvement:
President of Youth Group, Song Leader and Choir Member, Highfield
Street United Baptist Church, 1959‑1961
Choir Member, West Lane United Baptist Church, 1964‑1965
Sunday School Teacher, Youth Leader, Choir Member and Deacon, First
Baptist Church, Guelph, Ontario, 1965‑1971
Adult Class Teacher, Deacon, Board of Finance, Choir Member, Moderator
and Assistant Moderator, Uplands United Baptist Church, 1971‑1991
Bible Study Leader, Kentville United Baptist Church, 1993‑1996
Chairman of the Pulpit Committee, Kentville, 2000-2001
Other Ministry Opportunities:
Student Union President, U.B.B.T.S., 1960‑1961
Junior Class Chaplain, Gordon College, 1962‑1963
Orderly at Moncton City Hospital: Summers 1963‑1964
Area Committee, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Guelph, 1966‑1970
Organizer and President of Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship,
University of Guelph, 1966‑1968
Gideons International in Canada, 1975‑1987
Speaker Training Seminar Resource Person
President of Home and School, Bessborough School, Moncton, N.B.
1979‑1981
Societies:
American Society of Church History
Atlantic Baptist Historical Society
Canadian Society of Church History
Member‑at‑Large, Canadian Society of Church History 1989‑­1994
Conference of Faith and History
Canadian Evangelical Theological Society
Popular and Religious Papers and Lectures:
Frequent speaker on historical and Biblical themes at Conferences,
Weekend Retreats, and Special Occasions for Churches, Associations and
Conven­tion.
"World Peace", Seminar Paper for Second World Baptist Men's
Conference, Indianapolis, 1978
"Atlantic Baptists and Education", Baptist Men's Institute, Acadia
University, 1978
Respondent to "The Believers' Church and Public School Education",
Believers' Church
Confer­ence, Winnipe­g, 1978
Respondent to Dr. Phil Collins paper on "The Servant Leader" at
Canadian Baptist Theological
Educators' meeting at Calgary, July, 1988
"Divorce, Remarriage and the Pastor", Baptist Ministers' Institute,
1978
"Bible Teaching for Adults", Various Conferences, 1977‑1981
"Educational Options for Baptists: Past and Present", Saint John‑Kings
Association, 1980
Moncton Lenten Services, Spring, 1985
"Passion Week", Holy Week Services, Amherst, April, 1990
“Where in the World Is the Church in Canada”, City Centre Ministries,
May 1994
“What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?” City Centre
Ministries, Fall 1995
Scholarly Papers (not published):
"Isaiah Wallace and Revivalism in Atlantic Canada: 1850‑1905":
Canadian Evangelical Theologi­cal Society, Toronto, 1981
4 Papers for The Canadian Association of Reformed Faith and Action,
Waterloo, 1983
"God, Gladstone and the Liberal Party: 1884, an Example of British
Evangelical Political Involve­ment"
"British Evangelicals and the Beginning of the Welfare State"
"1884: God, MacDonald and the Conservative Party"
"Canadian Evangelicals and the Beginnings of the Welfare State"
“The Political Impact of British Evangelicals in the Late Nineteenth
Century” Conference of Faith and History, Southwestern Theological
Seminary, Fort Worth, 1984
"Why Would Maritime Baptists Found a College in 1949?" Baptist
Historical Conference, North American Baptist Seminary, Edmonton
Alberta, 1990
"From William Carey to Richard Burpee: Maritime Baptists and Foreign
Missions" Canadian Society of Church History, University of Prince
Edward Island, Charlotteto­wn, P.E.I., June 8, 1992
"Atlantic Baptists and the Canadian Council of Churches" History of
Religion in Atlantic Canada Confer­ence, University of New Brunswick,
Saint John, New Brunswick October 3, 1992
Two papers for Expectations: A William Carey Celebration and
Consultation, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, October
29‑31, 1992
"How Do You Grow a Missionary: William Carey's Early Life"
"The Carey Heritage and the Progress of Baptist Mission in Canada"
“Patterns in Canadian Baptist Life” Second International Conference on
Baptist Studies, Wake Forest University, July 19-22, 2000
“Canada’s Revival Tradition”, for Evangelical Fellowship of Canada for
inclusion in Heal our Land, a forthcoming volume.
Published Articles:
36 articles on the Canadian Church in J.D. Douglas (ed.), The New
International Dictionary of the Christian Church (Zondervan, Grand
Rapids,1974)
"British Influences in the Nineteenth Century", Jarold K. Zeman (ed.),
Baptists in Canada: Search for Identity Amidst Diversity (Welsh,
Burlington, 1980)
"Alexander Crawford", J.A. McIntyre, Elizabeth Waterston (eds.) Some
Scots: Shaping Canada, Scottish Tradition, Canadian Association for
Scottish Studies, Vol.XI‑XII, Guelph, (1981‑1982)
"Questions That Remain: Reformation and Mission", The Canadian Baptist
(November, 1983, No. 10, Toronto)
"Divorce and Remarriage", The Atlantic Baptist (March 1, 1983, Vol.
19, No. 3, Kentville, N.S.)
“The Judson Connection”, The Enterprise, Fall 1987, No. 137, 24-28
"John Mockett Cramp" and "Alexander Crawford", Daniel G. Reid, editor,
Dictionary of Christianity in America (1990, Intervarsity Christian
Fellowship, Downer's Grove, Illinois)
“John Mockett Cramp” Bill J. Leonard, editor, Dictionary of Baptists
in America, (Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove, 1994)
“’Evangelical, Missionary, and Christ-Centred’” : The Founding of
Atlantic Baptist College”and “Atlantic Baptists Confront the Turbulent
Sixties”, David T. Priestley, ed., A Fragile Stability: Definition and
Redefinition of Maritime Baptist Identity, Lancelot Press, Hantsport,
1994, 131-169.
“The Little College That Could”, News, Canadian College of Teachers,
Vol. 39, Num. 4, May 1997,Sherwood Park, AB.
“The 1999 Presidential Address: Now Is the Time to Extend Christ’s
Love” The Atlantic Baptist, July/August, 1999, 20-21.
“Fifty Tears of Service: Atlantic Baptist University Celebrates a
Milestone”, The Atlantic Baptist, July/August, 1999, 28-29.
“’Conservative But Not Contentious:’ The Early Years of The United
Baptist Bible Training School” Daniel Goodwin, ed. Revivals, Baptists
and George Rawlyk, Vol 17, Baptist Heritage in Atlantic Canada,
(Acadia Divinity College, Wolfville, 2000) 133-152.
Published Books and Pamphlets:
"The Baptist Heritage in the Maritimes", Pamphlet Prepared for the
1982 Baptist Federation of Canada meetings in Moncton, July, 1982
An Abiding Conviction: Maritime Baptists and Their World, ed. (1988,
Lancelot Press, Hantsport, N.S.)
Moncton's Religious Heritage: Historical Sketches of Moncton's
Religious Congregations, ed. Robert S. Wilson and Leon Theriault,
(Moncton 100, Moncton, 1990)
Critical Book Reviews:
Julio De Santa Ana, Separation Without Hope: The Church and the Poor
During the Industrial Revolution and Colonial Expansion, in Journal of
Church and State (Baylor, Spring 1981) 355‑357
Jeremy N. Morris, Religion and Urban Change: Croyden, 1840-1914, in
Church History (Vol. 64, September 1995, No.3) 509-11
David Nicholls, The Pluralist State: The Political Ideas of J.N.
Figgis and His Contemporaries, in Church His­tory (Vol. 65, September
1996, No. 3) 530-1
Theses:
"British Evangelical Reaction to the Indian Mutiny of 1857", M.A.
Thesis, University of Guelph, 1967, 147
"A House Divided: British Evangelical Parliamentary Influence in the
Latter Nineteenth Century, 1860‑1902­", Ph.D. Thesis, 2 Vol., The
University of Guelph, 1973, 550
Other:
Cluster member and writer of preliminary papers for a paper read by
Eugene Thompson at The McMaster Confer­ence and published in Murray
J.S. Ford (ed.), Canadian Baptist History and Polity: The McMaster
Conference (McMaster, Hamilton, 1982) Paper Title "The Status of
Transcongregational Polity", pp. 93‑107
Theses Directed:
James Donald Cameron, “The Early Plymouth Brethren as Reaction and
Response to Society”, M.A.Th., Acadia Divinity College, 1985
George W. Scott, “Transition from Seminary to Pastorate as It Occurs
in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec”, D.Min. Acadia
Divinity College, 1993
Holly Jane Latham, “In Search of the True Church: An Examination of
the Significance of Small Groups Within Early Anabaptism and Pietism”,
M.A.Th., Acadia Divinity College, 1993
Darrell Feltmate, “’The Help Should Be Greatest Where the Need Is
Most’: The Social Gospel Platform of the United Baptist Convention of
the Maritime Provinces, 1921”, M.Div. Hons. Acadia Divinity College,
1993
Gordon L. Heath, “’Flirting with Nirvana’: The Canadian Baptist View
of Warfare, 1919-1939”, M.Div. Hons. Acadia Divinity College, 1994
Adewale Alani Kuyebi, “’Go Forward and Establish a Christian Church’.
The Theory and Practice of Church Membership and Church Membership and
Discipline in Early Swiss Anabaptism, 1521-1528” M.Div. Hons. Acadia
Divinity College, 1994
Garry Eugene Milley, “The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a
Study Guide to Accompany the Text Canadian Pentecostals: A History of
the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada”, D.Min, Acadia Divinity College,
1995
Douglas Robert Kellough, "A Historical and Contemporary Assessment of
Baptist Chaplaincy in the Halifax Hospitals," D. Min. Acadia Divinity
College, 1997
Lionel M. Moriah, “Christian Discipline: Legalism or Covenant
Responsibility?”, D.Min., Acadia Divinity College, 1997
Eric MacKinnon, “Atlantic Baptists and the Abortion Issue”, M.A.
Thesis, Acadia Divinity College, 1999
David R. Watt, “A Program of Visitation in the Local Church, First
Baptist Church, Dartmouth, NS”, D. Min. Thesis, 1999
Present Publication Projects
“The Impact of the Gordon College Model on the Development of Atlantic
Baptist University”, and Associate Editor of work, Mercer Press.
The Diaries of Joshua Barnes and Isaiah Wallace, Gaspereau Press
Atlantic Baptist 1998 Hayward Lectures, Editor, Gaspereau Press
Canadian Baptist 1998 Hayward Lectures, Editor, Gaspereau Press
History of Atlantic Baptist University, Gaspereau Press
Baptists in the 1920s, Centennial Volume for the Baptist World
Alliance, ed Richard Pieard, publication in 2004.
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