Biography:

Historian of religion; university professor. Born– December 5, 1929, Miami, Fla. Parents– Thomas and Frankie (Calhoun) Armour. Married– Mary Anne Crum, May 30, 1957. Children– Three. Education– Baylor University, B.A., 1950; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1953; Harvard University, S.T.M., 1956; Th.D., 1963.  U.S. Army Chaplain, 1953-55.  Taught at Stetson University, 1960-73; at Auburn University (professor and department head), 1973-80; Mercer University, 1980-1998. Member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society for Church History, the Southern Baptist Historical Society, and the Florida Baptist Historical Society. With his wife, Dr. Mary Anne Armour, established the Armour Family Therapy Lecture Series at Mercer University Medical School in 1998. Received the Brewer Award from the American Society for Church History, 1966.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976-1977; Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed.; and Writer’s Directory, 1976-1978.

Publication(s):

Anabaptist Baptism, a Representative Study. Scottsdale, Pa.; Herald Press, 1966.

Islam, Christianity, and the West:  A Troubled History.  Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis Books, 2002.

Editor;

Perspectives on Christian Ethics; Essays in Honor of Henlee Hulix Burnette.  Macon; Mercer University Press, 1991.

Joint_Publications;

History of the First Baptist Church of Christ at Macon; Macon, Georgia, 1826-1968.  Macon, GA; Southern Press, 1968-89.

Updated 11-16-2012 by Nancy DuPree