Portrait of Obedience: The Biography of Robert T. Ketcham

by J. Murray Murdoch

Interested in Regular Baptist history or in your theologicalroots? This book shows how God used the obedience of Robert T. Ketcham to help shape Baptist fundamentalism in America.

Genres: Biography

328 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Anson Cassel Mills]

Robert Thomas Ketcham (1889-1978) was a Baptist pastor, a leader of separationist fundamentalism, and a founder of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches. This biography was written immediately after Ketcham’s death by a professor of history at Cedarville College, a school supported by the GARBC. The research and writing are serviceable if unexciting, but Murdoch has difficulty deciding whether he wants to write a scholarly or a devotional biography, and he is unable to place Ketcham in the larger context of twentieth-century fundamentalism. Furthermore, too much space is given to block quotations and certain stories, such as the illness of Ketcham’s older daughter.