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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Early English Baptists, 1603-49
Book SynopsisA fresh examination of the Baptist movement, showing its growth and development to be more complex than hitherto assumed. This book challenges the orthodoxy that seventeenth-century Baptists were divided from the first into two separate denominations, 'Particular' and 'General', defined by their differing attitudes to predestination and the atonement, showing how the position was in fact much more complicated. It describes how from the foundation of the 'Generals' in 1609 there were always two tendencies, one clericalist and pacifist, influenced by the Dutch Mennonites, and one reflecting the English traditions of erastianism and local lay predominance in religion. It re-analyses the confessional struggle during and after the civil war, showing how Independent and erastian sentiment in Parliament increasingly combined to baulk Presbyterian ambition; during and partly because of this process (which they also influenced), the Baptists evolved into three recognisable tendencies. Amongst General Baptists there was a politically radical current, but also a more passive tendency which was starting to gain ground. In 1647-9 most but by no means all Particular Baptist leaders were hostile to the Levellers. The book looks at the nature of religious convictionin the New Model Army, reassessing the role and influence of Baptists in it. In the late 40s, many Baptists, soldiers and civilians, rejected formal ordinances altogether. STEPHEN WRIGHT received his Ph.D. from the Universityof London. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of North London.Trade ReviewIn addition to a detailed analysis of some of the key documents for early Baptist history, the book contains in both the text and the appendices a wealth of biographical information on members of individual congregations. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *This substantial new study of early English Baptists is full of fresh insights and perspectives. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Exhaustive, detailed and persuasive. * SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY *The best, most reliable, history of the early Baptists. * PATRICK COLLINSON, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Sets a high standard for meticulous scholarship that advances new and persuasive theories for a foundational time period in Baptist history. [...] Stephen Wright's work is exhaustive, detailed, and persuasive. * BAPTIST THEOLOGY, SW BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY *This important book deserves to be read widely and its results incorporated into the way the story of early Baptists is told. * THE EXPOSITORY TIMES *A well documented historical reassessment of the place these believers held in the early Stuart era. [...] [This] work will hopefully lead to further studies of the early English Baptists. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *Offers an in-depth reading of the primary and secondary sources of English Baptist origins and provides several provocative revisions to standard treatments of the era. * BAPTIST HISTORY & HERITAGE *Demonstrate[s] the rich diversity characteristic of Baptist belief in the period and the complex inter-relationships between different leaders, congregations, and groupings.it thus offers an important contribution to a fuller understanding of the English Revolution. * JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY *Wright's volume is very much to be welcomed moving as it does beyond the traditional debates. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *A significant contribution to our understanding about how Baptists developed in the 1640s and why they belonged to differing factions. [...] For anyone seriously interested in looking at Baptists beginnings in seventeenth-century England, Dr Wright has set down a challenge which cannot be ignored. * BAPTIST QUARTERLY *A most impressive and well-argued work. * BAPTIST UNION OF SCOTLAND NEWS *This erudite work must be read by those interested in the origins of the Baptist traditions. * CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY CIRCLE MAGAZINE *
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Christian Focus Publications Ltd A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession
Book SynopsisFor centuries, Baptists have published confessions of faith as formal statements of their beliefs. Chief among these is the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689. This doctrinal statement is a spiritual treasure trove worthy of our fresh attention. In this new study, more than twenty contributors unpack its timeless biblical truths, ‘things which are most surely believed among us’ (Luke 1:1). Our prayer is that the Lord will use this volume to richly edify and sanctify His people worldwide, and to assist the churches in pursuing biblical holiness and doctrinal purity. May these labors send God’s people back again and again to the Bible, which is—as the confession states—the ‘only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience’ (1.1). Includes contributions from: Earl M. Blackburn Brian Borgman Dave Chanski David Charles Jason Ching Victor Claudio Jim Domm Gary Hendrix Steven Hofmaier Jeff Johnson Mitch Lush Lee McKinnon John Price Mike Renihan John Reuther Mark Sarver James Savastio Jeffery Smith Rob Ventura Calvin Walden Sam Waldron Austin Walker Jeremy Walker Trade ReviewBiblically rooted, theologically careful and engagingly written, this work is also consistently warm in its tone and practical in its application, authored as it is by pastors who are committed to the biblical truths that the Confession teaches. -- Robert Strivens (Pastor, Bradford–on–Avon Baptist Church, Wiltshire, UK & former Principal, London Seminary)Whereas there are many books dealing with one or two aspects of theology, it is good to have one book that gives those coming to Reformed Baptist convictions a comprehensive view of what we believe. -- Conrad Mbewe (Pastor, Kabwata Baptist Church, Kabwata, Zambia; Founding Chancellor, African Christian University, Lusaka, Zambia)… many of the chapters are superb in their biblical, theological, and experiential understanding and application of the great truths of Scripture. -- Joel R. Beeke (Chancellor, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan)This volume will add richness to the weekly study of a pastor and give an invaluable book for church groups for enriching their biblical knowledge and the contextual consistency and doctrinal coherence of the inspired Scriptures. -- Tom Nettles (Senior Professor of Historical Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky)Here is a tool for every follower of Christ who desires to see Jesus, our altogether lovely One, more clearly, understand His redemptive labors more fully, and walk more nearly to Him in applied truth. -- John Snyder (Pastor at Christ Church, New Albany, Director of Media Gratiae)Many of the contributing expositors of the chapters in this new exposition of the 1689 are veteran pastors in the latter years of their longstanding pastorates. May the following generations be faithful stewards as they have been, in profession and practice, of the “sound words” they have set forth in this new work. Herein is a legacy of truth to be bought and not sold (Proverbs 23:23). -- George McDearmon (Pastor Ballston Lake Baptist Church, Ballston Lake, NY)In an age of relativism and unregulated piety, a return to the doctrines of grace espoused by this confession is urgently needed. The exposition of these truths given in this volume is masterful. May its publication and use aid in the reformation of the church in our time. -- Derek W. H. Thomas (Senior Minister of Preaching and Teaching, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina)In a most attractive, readable and scholarly way this rich volume presents historic Christianity as Baptists have absorbed it and been confessing it for the last 333 years in this grand statement of our best Confession of Faith. This book is a tremendous achievement. -- Geoff Thomas (Conference Speaker and author, Aberystwyth, Wales)You do not need to agree with every sentence in this 1689 Confession to benefit greatly from its exposition by men of theological orthodoxy and pastoral integrity. Read and sink your mind and heart into the rich truths as expressed in this new work. -- Ian Hamilton (President, Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Newcastle, UK )
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The Baptist Standard Bearer The History Of The English Baptists - Vol. 2
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Church Publishing Inc Preaching Baptism: Incorporating Baptismal Values
Book SynopsisA guide to communicating the power and significance of baptism.Although the sacrament of baptism is central to Christian experience, it is usually only discussed in many churches when a baptism happens to be occurring. In Preaching Baptism, priest and noted preacher James Bradley Shumard identifies ways to reinforce baptismal values in the weekly liturgy, from the pulpit in sermons, as well as from other teaching moments in the liturgy. Including chapters on preaching about baptism across the church year, connecting the lectionary to baptism, baptismal vows, and more, this volume offers guidance to clergy in keeping baptismal vocation at the core in every Sunday's sermon.Trade Review"As promised, Shumard focuses on preaching, reviewing the Revised Common Lectionary through the lens of baptism. This valuable resource overflows with opportunities for preaching baptismal themes." – Dr. Fredrica Harris Thompsett, author of We Are Theologians and Living with History"Preaching Baptism is an engaging invitation to live as followers of Christ infused with the sacred waters of baptism. Accessible to clergy and laity alike, Preaching Baptism is perfect for a retreat setting, adult forums, and personal enrichment. Full of practical and creative suggestions on incorporating the importance of baptism into weekly worship, Rev. Shumard illustrates the life-giving relevance of our baptismal vows. His is a timely book with transformative power." – The Rt. Rev. Paul-Gordon Chandler, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Wyoming and Founder of CARAVAN Arts"Shumard challenges us to live and preach baptism beyond those Sundays we perform the sacrament. Prepare to dust off the font and adjust the church bulletin for a more embodied experience of living into our baptismal vows each week. This practical guide is helpful for anyone who desires a fresh, reimagined approach to worship." – The Rev. Canon Dr. Dennis G. Campbell, retired Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas"An extremely well-written and informative book that will hold your attention from the first page. I learned of the deeper meanings of baptism and experienced revelations throughout each chapter. This is an important and fascinating read. As a layperson, I would recommend this book to anyone seeking clarification about the meaning and ritual of baptism, whether you are a casual reader or a member of the clergy." – Jeanne Miller, Congregant"As a parishioner at St. Mark’s during Father Shumard’s time here, I have had a baptismal epiphany. Repeated recitation has let me come to understand that the still valid two millennia old Nicene Creed lets us express what we believe, while the Baptismal Vows have such deep meaning that they are a prescription for Christian living. The Vows are what we commit to actively do with our lives." – Steve Kurtz, CongregantTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why This Book and Why Baptism?Baptism Is a Lifelong JourneyBaptismal Preaching: Themes from the Catechumenate, Confirmation, and the Reaffirmation of the Baptismal Vows Baptismal VowsA Quick Guide for Ordinary Sundays with Baptismal Themes as Found in Readings from the Revised Common LectionarySeasonal Preaching and Preaching for Special OccasionsThe Service of Holy BaptismArchitecture and AccoutrementsPreaching and Teaching MomentsThe History of BaptismConclusionAppendix A: The Question of Open CommmunionAppendix B: Sample Baptismal SermonsBibliographyAcknowledgements
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Christian Focus Publications Ltd The Water that Divides: Two views on Baptism
Book SynopsisThings that divide Christians act as a poor witness to the world. On such major schism is that of Baptism. However if we can't agree, the next best witness to the world is the manner of how we disagree. The two views explored here, paedo (or infant) baptism and adult (or believer's) baptism are often so entrenched that discussions can be based around prejudice rather than understanding. This classic book aims to eradicate the former and promote the latter. Do you know why Anglicans, Presbyterians and Methodists baptise babies? Do you know why Baptists find it impossible to understand why they do it? Do you know why most Baptists find it difficult to allow Paedobaptists to take communion or become church members? We owe it to the future health of the church, and its witness, to work out our differences in love before the world. This book looks at the biblical arguments for both views on baptism, show how these have been practised in church history and the place that baptism has in the church today. This book is based on the 1998 extended version of the 1977 classic.Donald Bridge and David Phypers approach this book from two different directions - respectively that of Baptist and Anglican. The common approach they bring is their respect of the others position as regards fidelity to scripture and faith.Trade Review"This revised and updated version (of The Water that Divides) is a model of the informed, respectful and irenic dialogue of which Evangelicalism stands in continual need. The final chapter, which sensitively sets baptismal practice within today's context, is a particularly valuable survey, whatever our stance on the cluster of issues which gather under the canopy of 'post-modernism'. This is an invaluable text for all involved, at every level, with Christian initiation and local church membership." -- Bruce Milne (Author and Conference Speaker)This volume would go some way to help people rethink what are true Gospel vitals and what are secondary, and hence non-divisive, issues. I commend this book to get Christians thinking and seeking a mutual way forward - we cannot afford the luxury of glasshouses, whichever side of the debate we stand. -- Rev J. F. Dunn
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Baylor University Press Baptists and the Kingdom of God
Book SynopsisThe essays in Baptists and the Kingdom of God, written by scholars from several countries and disciplinary perspectives, approach the question of the kingdom under four major themes: ecclesial, eschatological, social, and providential. The book illuminates views of Baptists wrestling with ideas surrounding the kingdom concept.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Baptists and the Kingdom of God David Bebbington Part One: The Kingdom of God and Ecclesiastical Interpretations Introductory Comments Paul S. Fiddes 1. Collective Virtue and Baptist Ecclesiology Meghan Byerly 2. What Does Leadership Look Like in the Kingdom of God?: "Serviceable Leadership" in Rauschenbusch's The Social Principles of Jesus (1916) Michael Whiting 3. "For the Extension of Christ's Kingdom": Australian Baptist Missionary Women in East Bengal, 1901 to 1945 Rebecca Anne Hilton Part Two: The Kingdom of God and Eschatological Interpretations Introductory Comments Jeanette Mathews 4. Baptist Legacies in Latin America: Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Changing Views of God's Kingdom across Borders Ivan Dias da Silva 5. Contingency, Joy, and the Kingdom of God: Theological Reflections on the Relationship between Divine and Human Joy Aidan Luke 6. Millennial Eden?: Baptist Postmillennialism and the Shaping of the Australian Dream Nicole Starling Part Three: The Kingdom of God and Social Interpretations Introductory Comments Terry G. Carter 7. The Kingdom of God: A Dangerously Powerful Challenge to Oppression Stephanie Peek 8. Slavery, Justice, and the Kingdom of God: Mapping Baptist Hermeneutics in the Atlantic World Ryan J. Butler 9. "Scotching Some Myths": Apartheid, Baptist Distinctives, and the Search for Social Concern Myra Ann Houser 10. "Wonderfully Ecumenical"?: The SBC Christian Life Commission, the Mainline, and 1960s Social Concern Skylar Ray Part Four: The Kingdom of God and Providential Interpretations Introductory Comments Roger Ward 11. Kingdom-Shaped Apologetics: Making Apologetics Accessible to All Seidel Abel Boanerges 12. Baptist Perspectives on Freedom and the Kingdom of God Joshua T. Searle Afterword Seeking the Kingdom of God: With Mind and Heart Karen Smith About the Contributors About the Editors
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University of Tennessee Press Forging a Christian Order: South Carolina
Book SynopsisA significant contribution to the historiography of religion in the U.S. south, Forging a Christian Order challenges and complicates the standard view that eighteenth-century evangelicals exerted both religious and social challenges to the traditional mainstream order, not maturing into middle-class denominations until the nineteenth century. Instead, Kimberly R. Kellison argues, eighteenth-century White Baptists in South Carolina used the Bible to fashion a Christian model of slavery that recognized the humanity of enslaved people while accentuating contrived racial differences. Over time this model evolved from a Christian practice of slavery to one that expounded on slavery as morally right. Elites who began the Baptist church in late-1600s Charleston closely valued hierarchy. It is not surprising, then, that from its formation the church advanced a Christian model of slavery. The American Revolution spurred the associational growth of the denomination, reinforcing the rigid order of the authoritative master and subservient enslaved person, given that the theme of liberty for all threatened slaveholders’ way of life. In lowcountry South Carolina in the 1790s, where a White minority population lived in constant anxiety over control of the bodies of enslaved men and women, news of revolt in St. Domingue (Haiti) led to heightened fears of Black violence. Fearful of being associated with antislavery evangelicals and, in turn, of being labeled as an enemy of the planter and urban elite, White ministers orchestrated a major transformation in the Baptist construction of paternalism.Forging a Christian Order provides a comprehensive examination of the Baptist movement in South Carolina from its founding to the eve of the Civil War and reveals that the growth of the Baptist church in South Carolina paralleled the growth and institutionalization of the American system of slavery—accommodating rather than challenging the prevailing social order of the economically stratified Lowcountry.Trade Review"This is a well-researched and clearly written study that makes a significant contribution to the historiography of religion in the U.S. South. The author persuasively demonstrates that from the mid eighteenth century to the decades immediately preceding the outbreak of the American Civil War, South Carolina Baptists organized ecclesiastical institutions of increasing vigor and influence, with a wide-ranging Christian defense of slavery at their center, in order to extend their reach and strengthen their denomination.”&—Thomas J. Little, author of The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760
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Lulu.com C H Spurgeons Autobiography The Early Years 18341859 The Life of the Great Baptist Preacher Compiled from his diary letters records and sermons Hardcover
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Baptist Theology by Holmes Stephen R Author ON May282012 Paperback
Book SynopsisStephen Holmes is Lecturer in Theology at The University of St Andrews, UK. He has published extensively in the field of Christian theology and has previously collaborated with Colin Gunton in The Practice of Theology (2001).Trade ReviewIn exploring the Baptist tradition, Stephen Holmes offers an astonishing range of material packed into a relatively small space. He clarifies the difficult balance between individuality and life in community that Baptists have tried to maintain, and with an exceptional ease he integrates history with theology, offering many insightful theological judgements as he tells the story. In a masterful way he sets the development of a particular group within the wider movements of church, society and Christian thought, in a tour de force that should be read by all students of the Christian Church. -- Prof Paul S. Fiddes, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UKDo Baptists have a theology? The answer, as this book clearly shows, is ‘Yes'. But what sort of theology is it? Is it a version of Protestant evangelicalism, democratic individualism, or radical sectarianism? Holmes offers an account of Baptist theology as an activity that attends closely to the convictions and practices of congregations. This explains why expressions of Baptist theology often vary significantly. Yet in the particular attention to local gatherings, Holmes displays that Baptists still share the theological consensus of the wider church on such basic doctrines as the Trinity, the person and work of Christ, and creation. But as Holmes also makes plain, this emphasis on the gathered community finds distinctive manifestation in congregational church government, respect for the liberty of conscience, and participation in God's mission to the world. It is a clear and concise summary of Baptist theology that deserves to be widely used. -- Curtis W. Freeman, Research Professor of Theology and Director of the Baptist House of Studies, Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, USAThis volume focuses on the origins and establishment of baptism and proposes a key concept of the Church as a local community . . . A book which should be of interest to more than just evangelical Protestants. * Istina (Bloomsbury translation) *Table of Contents1. Who are the Baptists? Beginnings; 2. Who are the Baptists today?; 3. The Baptist vision of the church; 4. Christ is Lord, and the believer is free; 5. God's desire to save; 6. The high calling of the Christian; 7. Conclusion: a vision of Baptist theology.
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Mercer University Press In Search of the New Testament Church
Book SynopsisPresents a survey on the history of Baptists. This work highlights the persistent commitment of most Baptists to an informal constellation of 'Baptist distinctives'. It also highlights the Baptist commitment to religious liberty and the individual conscience.
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Mercer University Press Turning Points in Baptist History
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Mercer University Press Baptist Theology
Book SynopsisEmbracing in one common trajectory the major Baptist confessions of faith, the major Baptist theologians, and the principal Baptist theological movements and controversies, this book spans four centuries of Baptist doctrinal history.
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