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B. R. White | |
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| Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford | |
| In office 1972–1989 | |
| Succeeded by | Paul Fiddes |
Barrington (Barrie) Raymond White | |
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| Born | 1934 |
| Died | 12 November 2016 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge Regent's Park College, Oxford |
| Known for | Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford |
| Notable work | The English Baptists of the Seventeeth Century (Baptist Historical Society, 1983) |
| Awards | Pilgrim pathways: essays in Baptist history in honour of B.R. White (Festschrift) (2014) |
Barrie R. White (1934)[1] was a British Baptist ecclesiastical historian.
From 1972-1989 White was the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford where he led the college through a period of "great development and expansion".[1] He has been described as the "leading Baptist historian of his generation"[1]
Barrie was the oldest of six brothers, of whom he was very fond. His parents were Congregationalists, but Barrie started attending a Baptist church when he and another brother spent time with family friends, to ease things for his mother because it was wartime and his father had been called up. He met his future wife, Margaret, at Orpington Baptist Church when he was 16. They married seven years later, in 1957. His daughter Kathryn was born in 1960, and Sarah in 1963.[1]
Education
editAt school Barrie was a keen sportsman, playing both rugby and cricket. As a boy he played cricket with his father and the local Methodist team, an ecumenical tendency that he proudly continued in later life, when as Principal of Regent’s he played cricket with the local Jesuit college. His favourite subject at school was history.
However, Barrie had sensed a call to the ministry, and he won an Exhibition to read theology at Queens' College, Cambridge, 1953-56, moving to Regent's Park College, Oxford to study his DPhil. Completed in 1961, it brought his two major passions together, with a historical study of the communities of believers which became the very early Baptists in England, and ultimately the United States. His doctoral was published as The English Separatist Tradition: From the Marian Martyrs to the Pilgrim Fathers (Oxford, 1971). Through both his own continuing work and that of his DPhil students, Barrie became a leading figure in the scholarship of English Baptist history.[1]
Career
editHe was student pastor in Abingdon Baptist Church in 1958, ordained in September 1959 and inducted as Minister at Andover Baptist Church. White became Principal at Regent’s Park in 1972 after nine years as lecturer in Church History.[1]
He was a significant figure in the Baptist Union, including the early years of Mainstream, and was deeply trusted and respected in progressive Baptist circles in North America. Throughout his time at Regent’s, and particularly as Principal, the community of the college, the nurturing and encouragement of its members and its connections to the wider community of the Baptist denomination was at the heart of his vision and his joy.[1] was a British Baptist ecclesiastical historian.
Publications
editWhite was honoured with a Festschrift co-authored by colleagues William H. Brackney, Paul Fiddes and John H. Y. Briggs.
- , Pilgrim pathways : essays in Baptist history in honour of B.R. White (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1999)
sole-authored books
edit- The English Separatist Tradition: From the Marian Martyrs to the Pilgrim Fathers. Oxford. 1971.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - John Pendarves, the Calvinistic Baptists and the Fifth Monarch. 1974.
- Hanserd Knollys and radical dissent in the 17th century. London: Dr. Williams Trust. 1977.
- The English Puritan Tradition. Nashville: Broadman Press. 1980.
- The English Baptists of the Seventeeth Century. London: Baptist Historical Society. 1983.