Frank Stagg (October 20, 1911 – June 2, 2001) was a Southern Baptist theologian, seminary professor, author, and pastor over a 50-year ministry career.
His publications, recognitions and honors earned him distinction as one of the eminent theologians of the past century.
"[3] No one...has ever taken the New Testament more seriously than Frank Stagg, who spent his entire life wrestling with it, paying the price in sweat and hours in an unrelenting quest to hear the message expressed in a language no longer spoken and directed toward a cultural context so foreign to the modern reader.Dr.
Frank Stagg was born October 20, 1911, on his grandfather's rice farm near the small community of Eunice, Louisiana.
Frank was proud of his Louisiana French heritage and of his upbringing in the home of a Baptist deacon and Sunday School teacher.
Counted among the "best-known progressive activists,"[5] Stagg addressed a variety of contemporary issues.
These included civil rights, gender equity, Vietnam, the First Gulf War, ecumenism and aging.
[6] He opposed Reformed points of doctrine such as predestination and other Calvinist beliefs in Southern Baptist life.
[7] Through the years, Dr. Stagg amassed an extensive library and wealth of knowledge and scholarship in the form of correspondence, writings, articles, speeches, commentaries, book reviews, photographs, sermon notes and even private musings.
The Papers of Dr. Frank Stagg, 1938–1999 now reside at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
The 36 feet (11 m) represent more than a half century of his life's journey and Christian pilgrimage.
Frank Stagg is included in various lists of distinguished twentieth century Baptist theologians: E. Y. Mullins, W. T. Connor, W. O.
Carver, Frank Stagg, W. W. Stevens, Dale Moody, Dallas Roark, James Wm.
McClendon, Morris Ashcraft, E. Frank Tupper, Warren McWilliams, A. J. Conyers, and Curtis Freeman.
[8] He also has been called "one of the foremost interpreters of the New Testament among Baptists in the twentieth century.
"[9] At the Louisville seminary he held the prestigious James Buchanan Harrison Chair of New Testament Theology.
The Stagg-Tolbert Forum for Biblical Studies is an annual event named in his honor.
It is designed to make excellence in biblical scholarship accessible to the lay person.
In Glossolalia: Tongue Speaking in Biblical, Historical, and Psychological Perspective by Frank Stagg, E. Glenn Hinson, and Wayne E. Oates, pp. 20–44.
In Emerging Patterns of Rights and Responsibilities Affecting Church and State, pp. 37.
Nashville: Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1970.
In How to Understand the Bible, by Ralph Herring, Frank Stagg, et al., pp. 148–163.
In How to Understand the Bible, by Ralph Herring, Frank Stagg, et al., pp. 49–61.
"Sources in Biblical Writings," In How to Understand the Bible, by Ralph Herring, Frank Stagg, et al., pp. 134–147.
In How to Understand the Bible, by Ralph Herring, Frank Stagg, et al., pp. 106–117.
In How to Understand the Bible by Ralph Herring, Frank Stagg, et al., pp. 118–133.
In New Testament Studies: Essays in Honor of Ray Summers in His Sixty-Fifth Year, ed.
In 1977 Seminar Papers, Society of Biblical Literature Book of Reports, pp. 45–58.
Colossians: The Church's Lord and the Christian's Liberty - An Expository Commentary with a Present-Day Application, by Ralph P. Martin.
The Crucifixion of the Jews: The Failure of Christians to Understand the Jewish Experience, by Franklin H. Littell.