The Forthcoming Role of the Non-Christian Religious Systems as Contributory to Christian Theology

Abstract

The author of this article, the Rev. Herbert C. Jackson, Ph.D., will on July 1, 1961, become the new Director of the Missionary Research Library (see MRL News). Dr. Jackson is now Professor of Comparative Religion and Missions and Chairman of the Historical Division, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He studied at William Jewell College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale University. He is an ordained minister of the American Baptist Convention and served as a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in India for six years. Recently he spent a year on faculty fellowship, studying at the University of Ceylon and travelling throughout Asia. Professor Jackson has taught missions at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 1954. He is a member of the North American Advisory Committee of the International Missionary Council. Dr. Jackson's stimulating study of the relation of non-Christian religious systems to Christian theology was given as an address at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in September, 1960. - Ed.