Journal: Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal
Volume: DBSJ 01:1 (Spring 1996)
Article: Editorial
Author: Anonymous

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Editorial

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal. It is dedicated to Dr. William R. Rice, the founder and first president of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. It was because of the vision of Dr. Rice and the Inter-City Baptist Church, of which he was the pastor for forty years, that DBTS opened its doors in 1976. We will say more about Dr. Rice in the following pages.

The Seminary itself is a graduate institution offering both the traditional Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and Master of Theology (Th.M.) degrees. It has, however, a number of important distinctives. DBTS stands without apology in the fundamentalist tradition, and, at the same time, is both Baptist and separatist. We hold to a dispensational approach to the Bible with a resulting premillennial and pretribulational eschatology. Our primary mission is to prepare men for pastoral ministry, a ministry of biblical exposition within a framework of sound theology. A complete doctrinal statement can be found in the Seminary’s catalog.

Now, twenty years after its founding, DBTS takes up a new challenge as we publish the first issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal. For some time, we have sensed a need for quality scholarly literature written from a fundamentalist perspective. While that perspective may not be so prominent in Journal articles which are of a more technical and exegetical nature; nevertheless, it is our to goal to tackle many issues of interest and concern to the fundamentalist community.

This initial offering of the Journal contains essays written exclusively by the faculty of DBTS. In the future the faculty will continue to be major contributors, but it is hoped that others who share the basic theological convictions of the Seminary will contribute their scholarly output as well. Those interested in writing for the Journal should contact the editor.

Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal will initially be published on an annual basis. However, after this inaugural issue, a second issue will be forthcoming in the fall of 1996; thereafter, other issues will follow each fall. For those who would like to obtain future issues, a subscription envelope is enclosed herein. Because of its special nature, the length of this first issue of the Journal is somewhat longer than normal. Future issues will approximate one hundred pages in length.

Appreciation

This first issue of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal is dedicated to the founder and first president of the Seminary, Dr. William R. Rice. It was Dr. Rice’s vision for several years prior to the founding of the Seminary to have a separatist, fundamentalist Baptist seminary in southeastern Michigan. He and other pastors and leaders recognized the lack of a school with such emphases...

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