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The Early English Baptists, 1603-49 (Hardcover)
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The Early English Baptists, 1603-49 (Hardcover)
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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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