{"id":501,"date":"2016-06-16T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T19:11:26","slug":"a-tribute-mary-elaine-swanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/a-tribute-mary-elaine-swanson\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute – Mary-Elaine Swanson"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARY-ELAINE SWANSON: AMERICAN CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHER
\nJames B. Rose<\/a>, President, American Christian History Institute
\n<\/span><\/strong>
\nQuickened by the research and remarkable testimony of Verna M. Hall, American Christian Historian, Mary Elaine Swanson (nee Adams) has devoted her spiritual and intellectual gifts for the last fifty years to documenting the Christian history and character of the men and women God used to advance individual liberty and self-government in America. <\/span><\/p>\n

Equipped with a background in journalistic writing and research, fluent in French, and enriched with a unique English heritage, Mary-Elaine has lectured and written on the history of freedom and civil government as Vice President of the American Christian History Institute<\/a>, Resident Scholar for the Mayflower Institute, Resident Scholar for the Foundation for American Christian Education, and Guest Lecturer for the Pilgrim Institute<\/a>, among other ministries. <\/span><\/p>\n

She has written concise biographies of the character and contributions of nearly sixty historians from Simon Adler and Clarence Alvord to John Witherspoon and Rev. John Joachim Zubly.\u00a0 Her life and works are examples of American Christian scholarship and insistence upon accurate, honest representations of man and government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary-Elaine wrote two comprehensive biographies: The Education of James Madison \u2013 A Model for Today <\/a><\/em><\/strong>(1992) and the soon-to-be released John Locke \u2013 Philosopher of the American Revolution <\/em><\/strong><\/a>(Nordskog Publishing, 2011)\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>These two works alone cite over 160 individual historians, confirming her commitment to thorough research and devotion to primary resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the cherished personal recollections of this beloved sister in the Lord is my first impression of her, in 1958, over 50 years ago.\u00a0 She was Co-Chairman during Verna Hall\u2019s fifteen year Study Group on the Historic Origins of the Constitution held monthly at the Women\u2019s City Club in downtown San Francisco.\u00a0 A lively, quick witted, articulate discussion leader, she was gifted with a capacity to frame questions that compelled one to reason carefully from first principles and to quickly learn that any error in the premise would lead to an error in the conclusion.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is with great joy that her friends and associates celebrate Mary-Elaine Swanson\u2019s life of Christian scholarship and her love of learning and teaching America\u2019s Christian history and government and, in the spirit of the Apostle Paul, REMEMBER \u201cwithout ceasing (her) work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the sight of God our Father; knowing brethren beloved, (her) election of God<\/em><\/strong>\u201d unto life eternal. [I Thessalonians 1:3-4]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c…and let her own works praise her in the gates.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 [Proverbs 31:31[<\/span><\/p>\n

James B. Rose, President, American Christian History Institute
\nPrinted with permission<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARY-ELAINE SWANSON: AMERICAN CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHER James B. Rose, President, American Christian History Institute Quickened by the research and remarkable testimony of Verna M. Hall, American Christian Historian, Mary Elaine Swanson (nee Adams) has devoted her spiritual and intellectual gifts for the last fifty years to documenting the Christian history and character of the men and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,104,15],"tags":[10,107,16],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-christian-history","category-blog","category-ministry-musings","tag-americas-providential-history","tag-blog","tag-pilgrim-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}