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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Baptist Churches
God's Word says, "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word
of truth" (II Timothy 2:15). Rightly dividing or being able to
understand God's Word will require study. This book is designed to
assist you in studying God's Word. Fifty-two major doctrines of the
Bible are outlined in four separate books. Each chapter examines a
different Bible doctrine. The chapters are written in such a way to
help you thoroughly understand the doctrines--without needing a
seminary degree. If you want to be an approved workman unto God,
this book will help you accomplish that goal The thirteen chapters
of Book Four covers: The Rapture, The Bema Seat Judgment, The
Marriage of the Lamb, The Tribulation (3), The Battle of
Armageddon, The Second Coming, The Millennial Kingdom (2), The
Great White Throne Judgment, The New Heaven and New Earth, and The
Dispensational Principles.
Things 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.
Scholars and journalists have paid significant attention to the
contemporary Fundamentalist tendencies of southern Protestantism.
However, many studies neglect to consider how the Fundamentalist
controversies that roiled the Baptists and Presbyterians of the
North during the 1920s affected the Southern Baptist Convention
schism of 1970-2000. Fundamentalism, Fundraising, and the
Transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1919-1925
explores the scope and character of the interaction between
Southern Baptists and early Fundamentalism during the late 1910s
and early 1920s. By focusing more closely on the Southern Baptist
Convention, Andrew Christopher Smith examines the interaction
between the northernFundamentalist movement and southern religion
during the era. Though scholars agree that Fundamentalism is not
native to the South, no book thus far has considered the effects of
the Fundamentalist movement and how it influenced southern
Protestant denominational organizations, independent of southern
rejection of Fundamentalist-sponsored interdenominational
evangelistic and educational institutions. Smith proposes that
Fundamentalist ideas, lingering in the atmosphere of the South
after wafting there through hearsay, national religious
periodicals, and the secular press,likely influenced Southern
Baptist self-understanding during this critical period. Examining
documentary evidence, Smith explains that following the First World
War, Southern Baptists pushed toward bureaucratization. The
"Seventy-Five Million Campaign," a fundraising and
organization-building drive that the convention approved in 1919,
was the denominational movement through which the selective
appropriation of Fundamentalist ideas occurred. Exploring the
interplay of Southern Baptist claims and northern Fundamentalist
precepts, Smith fills a void in scholarly examination of
early-twentieth-century Baptist history.
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