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Orthodox Radicals - Baptist Identity in the English Revolution (Hardcover)
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Orthodox Radicals - Baptist Identity in the English Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe
of the nation's collective religious life. Today, Baptists have
developed into one of the world's largest Protestant denominations.
Despite this impressive transformation, those first English
Baptists remain chronically misunderstood. In Orthodox Radicals,
Matthew C. Bingham clarifies and analyzes the origins and identity
of Baptists during the English Revolution, arguing that
mid-seventeenth century Baptists did not, in fact, understand
themselves to be a part of a larger, all-encompassing Baptist
movement. Contrary to both the explicit statements of many
historians and the tacit suggestion embedded in the very use of
"Baptist" as an overarching historical category, the early modern
men and women who rejected infant baptism would not have initially
understood that single theological stance as being in itself
constitutive of a new collective identity. Rather, the rejection of
infant baptism was but one of a number of doctrinal revisions then
taking place among English puritans eager to further their on-going
project of godly reformation. Orthodox Radicals complicates our
understanding of Baptist identity, setting the early English
Baptists in the cultural, political, and theological context of the
wider puritan milieu out of which they arose. The book also speaks
to broader themes, including early modern debates on religious
toleration, the mechanisms by which early modern actors established
and defended their tenuous religious identities, and the perennial
problem of anachronism in historical writing. Bingham also
challenges the often too-hasty manner in which scholars have drawn
lines of theological demarcation between early modern religious
bodies, and reconsiders one of this period's most dynamic and
influential religious minorities from a fresh and perhaps
controversial perspective. By combining a provocative
reinterpretation of Baptist identity with close readings of key
theological and political texts, Orthodox Radicals offers the most
original and stimulating analysis of mid-seventeenth-century
Baptists in decades.
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