South Wales Bible Training Institute
The South Wales Bible Training Institute was a Bible college in Porth.[1] It was started by R. B. Jones in 1919.[2] Classes were initially held in his church's vestry in Ynyshir, but later moved to Tynycymmer Hall in Porth.[3] It was inspired by American fundamentalist Bible schools, especially Moody Bible Institute.[3] It closed in 1937.[4]
South Wales Bible Training Institute trained men and women in Bible knowledge "for all kinds of Christian work at home and abroad."[5] Densil D. Morgan has called it and the Bible College of Wales "Welsh fundamentalism's two most visible inter-war manifestations".[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Morgan, D. Densil; Jones, David Ceri (2022). "Adapting to a Secular Wales, 1890–2020". A History of Christianity in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 295. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Bebbington, David (2013). "Baptists and Fundamentalism in Inter-War Britain". Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom During the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 110. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ a b Morgan, Densil D. (2016). The Span of the Cross: Christian Religion and Society in Wales 1914-2000. University of Wales Press. p. 194. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Series 45-48. - South Wales Bible Training Institute, Porth". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Porth & Cymmer". Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail. Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Morgan, The Span of the Cross, p. 198.