Portrait of obedience: The biography of Robert T. Ketcham

by J. Murray Murdoch

Interested in Regular Baptist history? in your theological roots? in godly men of the past? This book shows how God used the obedience of a man, Robert T. Ketcham, to help shape Baptist fundamentalism in America.

Genres: Biography

Paperback

Published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Anson Cassel Mills · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.