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James Wm. McClendon, Jr. was the most important "baptist"
theologian of the twentieth century. McClendon crafted a systematic
theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism,
grew out of the immediacy of preaching the text, and lamented the
stunted public witness of a fractured Protestant
ecclesiology.
This two-volume set mixes previously unpublished and published
lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form a
representative collection of the essential themes of McClendon's
work. The first volume focuses on the philosophical and theological
shifts leading to McClendon's articulation of the baptist vision.
The second volume specifically elucidates the more philosophical
themes that informed McClendon's work, including ways in which
these themes had immediate theological import. Taken together, the
set provides the most comprehensive presentation of McClendon's
work now available, revealing the sustained and systematic
character of his vision over the course of his life. These two
volumes will provide scholars, preachers, and students with
McClendon's radical, narrative, and connective theology.
For 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
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For most of the colonial period, Virginia's spiritual landscape
was thoroughly dominated by the Church of England, which enjoyed a
legal, and virtually unchallenged, monopoly of faith. Evangelical
Protestant dissenters dramatically remade Virginia's religious
terrain, however, when they rapidly coalesced into congregations in
the decades just before the American Revolution, and then
overwhelmed a weakened Anglican Church in the war's aftermath.
Virginians Reborn examines the intricate processes by which one of
these groups, the Baptists, was able to take root, expand, and
successfully compete for converts. By 1790, Virginia was the most
Baptist state in America, as well as the point of origin of a
massive early nineteenth-century western migration that helped
spread the faith across the country.
Based primarily on church records, ministers' writings, local
records, imperial correspondence, and newspaper accounts, this
study looks at the geographical patterns of Baptist expansion, the
techniques dissenters used to gain adherents, the distinctiveness
of Baptist worship, and its cultural resonances in Virginia. The
book traces how the American Revolution created a new context
favorable to Baptists and how the rise of this faith echoed and
reinforced the development of a distinctive, proslavery form of
republicanism. As Virginians embraced new political forms and
sought to reconcile them with slavery and household patriarchy, the
book argues, they could find instructive models in the particulars
of Baptist fellowship.
Ultimately, the book chronicles a dual process of rebirth, as
Virginians simultaneously formed a republic and became evangelical
Christians.
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial prize for an outstanding
work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
The Future of Baptist Higher Education investigates four key issues
that inform Baptist efforts at higher education -- the
denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the
1980s, the secularization of higher education in America, the
dominance of the market-driven tendencies in American higher
education today, and the meaning of Christian higher education, but
more specifically, the meaning of Baptist higher education. This
volume clearly illustrates that the meaning of Baptist and
Christian higher education, as with the Christian life itself, is
far more complex than any one imperial interpretation.
A 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.
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