The South Wales Bible Training Institute was a Bible college in Porth. It was started by R. B. Jones in 1919. Classes were initially held in his church's vestry in Ynyshir, but later moved to Tynycymmer Hall in Porth. It was inspired by American fundamentalist Bible schools, especially Moody Bible Institute. It closed in 1937.
South Wales Bible Training Institute trained men and women in Bible knowledge "for all kinds of Christian work at home and abroad." Densil D. Morgan has called it and the Bible College of Wales "Welsh fundamentalism's two most visible inter-war manifestations".
References
- 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.
- ^ 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.
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