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'''John R. Rice''' (D.D.) (December 11, 1895 - December 29, 1980) was a [[Baptist]] [[evangelist]], Pastor and founder and editor of the Sword of the Lord. He was  an extremely influential figure in [[Fundamentalist]] Christianity. Rice is best known as founder, editor, and publisher of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' newspaper, and author of the book ''Prayer: Asking and Receiving''. He has also written several hymns, including a hymn on prayer entitled "''Ask, Seek, and Knock.''"
 
'''John R. Rice''' (D.D.) (December 11, 1895 - December 29, 1980) was a [[Baptist]] [[evangelist]], Pastor and founder and editor of the Sword of the Lord. He was  an extremely influential figure in [[Fundamentalist]] Christianity. Rice is best known as founder, editor, and publisher of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' newspaper, and author of the book ''Prayer: Asking and Receiving''. He has also written several hymns, including a hymn on prayer entitled "''Ask, Seek, and Knock.''"
  
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John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas December 11, 1895, the son of William H. and Sallie Elizabeth La Prade Rice. He was the oldest of three siblings. He was converted at age 12.  
 
John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas December 11, 1895, the son of William H. and Sallie Elizabeth La Prade Rice. He was the oldest of three siblings. He was converted at age 12.  
  
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In 1932 he founded the Funfamentalist Baprist Church in Dallas. In 1934, he founded ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'', a bi-weekly publication that has grown into the foremost Fundamentalist newsletter in the world.  It vigorously exposed the evils of a liberalism, Catholicism, Communism, the civil rights movement, and
 
In 1932 he founded the Funfamentalist Baprist Church in Dallas. In 1934, he founded ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'', a bi-weekly publication that has grown into the foremost Fundamentalist newsletter in the world.  It vigorously exposed the evils of a liberalism, Catholicism, Communism, the civil rights movement, and
 
various other vices, including dancing, alcohol, smoking, and motion pictures.
 
various other vices, including dancing, alcohol, smoking, and motion pictures.
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===Civil rights===
 
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Rice, head of the Sword of the Lord Foundation, in the 1960s opposed the developing civil rights movement's influence on Christianity, which he believed was being distracted by worldly social causes from its true mission of evangelizing. Rice also condemned interracial marriage and racial agitation, which he saw as inspired by communism.
 
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Between 1920 and 1940, Fundamentalist Protestant preachers abandoned an image of women as idealized religious allies for an emphasis on female vulnerability and submissiveness, reflecting a transformation in both women's social roles and in organized religion. Green's 1996 study of three preachers - Rice, [[Billy Sunday]] and [[John Roach Straton]], describes three major characteristics of fundamentalist thought during the era of rapid social transformation between 1920 and 1940. First, the fundamentalists' image of women changed from a vague but positive notion of women as morally superior and religiously inclined to a more rigid definition of women's subordinate status. Second, the preachers' redefinition of women's roles grew from fundamentalism's emphasis on the role of men in the church, not from a distaste for women's entry into public life. Finally, fundamentalist ideology responded to a particular social change - for example, to women's suffrage - with either approval or opposition rather than with a rigidly conservative reaction.
 
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<ref>Marty Nesselbush Green, "From Sainthood to Submission: Gender Images in Conservative Protestantism, 1900-1940," ''Historian'' 1996 58(3): 539-556</ref>
 
  
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In 1939 he left Dallas for Wheaton, Illinois in 1940, which became the base for ''The Sword'' and for his full-time evangelism. He attacked [[Billy Graham]] for cooperating with liberal ministers in his evangelistic crusades.  
 
In 1939 he left Dallas for Wheaton, Illinois in 1940, which became the base for ''The Sword'' and for his full-time evangelism. He attacked [[Billy Graham]] for cooperating with liberal ministers in his evangelistic crusades.  
  
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Revision as of 03:32, October 20, 2009

John R. Rice (D.D.) (December 11, 1895 - December 29, 1980) was a Baptist evangelist, Pastor and founder and editor of the Sword of the Lord. He was an extremely influential figure in Fundamentalist Christianity. Rice is best known as founder, editor, and publisher of The Sword of the Lord newspaper, and author of the book Prayer: Asking and Receiving. He has also written several hymns, including a hymn on prayer entitled "Ask, Seek, and Knock."

Early Life and Education

John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas December 11, 1895, the son of William H. and Sallie Elizabeth La Prade Rice. He was the oldest of three siblings. He was converted at age 12.

Rice briefly attended Decatur Baptist College, served in the Army, and graduated from Baylor University in 1920. He did graduate work at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as University of Chicago.

He is a Doctor of Divinity.[1]

He took on his first pastorate at First Baptist Church Shamrock, Texas, and later pastored in Dallas Texas. However became a full-time itinerant evangelist in 1926. He collaborated with J. Frank Norris on an early radio program. Reacting against modernism, Rice broke with the Southern Baptist Convention in 1927.

Sword of the Lord

In 1932 he founded the Funfamentalist Baprist Church in Dallas. In 1934, he founded The Sword of the Lord, a bi-weekly publication that has grown into the foremost Fundamentalist newsletter in the world. It vigorously exposed the evils of a liberalism, Catholicism, Communism, the civil rights movement, and various other vices, including dancing, alcohol, smoking, and motion pictures.

In 1939 he left Dallas for Wheaton, Illinois in 1940, which became the base for The Sword and for his full-time evangelism. He attacked Billy Graham for cooperating with liberal ministers in his evangelistic crusades.

Rice moved finally in 1963, at the invitation of his brother Bill Rice, to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, helping out at the Bill Rice Ranch.

John and Bill worked as co-editors of The Sword until 1978, when Bill died. That same year, John Rice asked Curtis Hutson to move to Murfreesboro and help him as co-editor of the Sword. Hutson succeeded Rice two years later.

John R Rice continued diligently editing The Sword until his death on December 29, 1980.

John R. Rice had a great impact on the world through his early pastoral work, his enormous effort in evangelism, and through his prolific pen by which he earned the nick name "The 20th Century's Mightiest Pen".

Further reading

  • Sumner, Robert L. A Man Sent from God: A Biography of Dr. John R. Rice (1959).

Works

Books

  • 742 Heart-Warming Poems -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-758-6)
  • Amusements for Christians -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-012-3)
  • Apples of Gold -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-017-4)
  • Bible Baptism -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-055-7)
  • Bible Facts About Heaven -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-057-3)
  • Bible Garden, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-081-6)
  • Bible Lessons on the Book of Revelation -- Sword of the Lord Pub
  • Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives, and Women Preachers -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-065-4)
  • Charismatic Movement, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-101-4)
  • False Doctrines -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-282-7)
  • Filled With The Spirit -- Sword of the Lord Pub
  • God in Your Family -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-304-1)
  • Golden Path to Successful Personal Soul Winning, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-306-8)
  • Home--Courtship, Marriage and Children, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-359-9)
  • How to Get Things From God -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-366-1)
  • How to Make a Grand Success of the Christian Life -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-381-5)
  • In the Beginning... -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-403-X)
  • Lodges Examined by the Bible -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-510-9)
  • Our God-Breathed Book--The Bible -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-628-8)
  • Prayer--Asking and Receiving -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-654-7)
  • Predestined for Hell? -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-657-1)
  • Ruin of a Christian, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-710-1)
  • Second Coming of Christ in Daniel, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-753-5)
  • Seven Secrets -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-759-4)
  • Son of God, The -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-794-2)
  • The Coming Kingdom Of Christ -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-116-2)
  • We Can Have Revival Now/Soul Winner's Fire -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-902-3)
  • What it Costs to be a Good Christian -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-905-8)
  • When a Christian Sins -- Sword of the Lord Pub (ISBN 0-87398-911-2)

Other

The Rice Reference Bible Nashville: Thomas Nelson (1975)

References

  1. ↑ Definite Praying by Dr. Robert Hymers

External links

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