New Orleans professor receives Lilly Grant

NEW ORLEANS — The Association of Theological Schools and the Lilly Endowment recently announced that R. Stan Norman, associate professor of theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, has been awarded a Lilly Theological Research Grant.

The grant will support his efforts to study and preserve historical Baptist documents recently discovered in the seminary library.

The goal of Norman’s research involves the digitization and evaluation of rare Baptist documents housed in the John T. Christian Library to ensure their preservation for future generations. To make the project a collaborative effort, Norman has enlisted the help of Lloyd Harsch, assistant professor of church history at New Orleans Seminary.

After the digitization and evaluation, Norman plans to publish the documents along with a critical commentary to be called “New Perspectives on Ancient Ideas: A Critical Analysis of Rare Theological Writings on Baptist Life and Thought.”