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Like a Mighty Army? (Hardcover)
David W. Taylor; Foreword by John H.Y. Briggs
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Pulpit and People (Paperback)
John H.Y. Briggs; Foreword by D.Densil Morgan
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The eighteenth century was a crucial time in Baptist history. The
denomination had its roots in seventeenth-century English
Puritanism and Separatism and the persecution of the Stuart kings,
with only a limited measure of freedom after 1689. Worse, however,
was to follow for with toleration came doctrinal conflict, a move
away from central Christian understandings and a loss of
evangelistic urgency. Both spiritual and numerical decline ensued,
to the extent that the denomination was virtually reborn as rather
belatedly it came to benefit from the Evangelical Revival which
brought new life to both Arminian and Calvinistic Baptists. It has,
however, been strongly argued that those who were associated with
Bristol College had a continuous tradition of Evangelical Calvinism
and that the General Baptists of the South Midlands and the Home
Counties, owing as much to the legacy of the Lollards as to Dutch
Anabaptism, did not succumb to heterodoxy. The papers in this
volume therefore study a denomination in transition, and relate to
theology, their views of the church and its mission, Baptist
spirituality, and engagement with radical politics.
The aim of this volume is twofold. First, it is to provide European
Baptists with a useful reference work concerning their own
heritage, their common fund of essential belief and understanding,
but also the diversity of practice amongst them. Secondly, it aims
to identify these issues for the benefit of those who want to know
what Baptists believe and why they hold their distinctive beliefs,
what, in fact, makes Baptists tick. Themes running through this
collection of articles include ecclesiology, worship and litrugy,
diaconal sevices, all aspects of theology, mission, ethics, history
and heritage, Baptist organisations and ecumenical relations. There
are also articles on Baptist witness, past and present, in every
nation represented within the European Baptist Federation.
From a historical point of view Sunday schools have immense
significance. In the nineteenth century Sunday schools were part of
general educational provision and represented the Christian
philanthropic impulse to provide a basic education to the
population at large and at low cost. In this book a range of
experts assess different aspects of the history of the Sunday
school movement. Contributors include Clyde Binfield Faith Bowers
John Briggs Grayson Ditchfield Hugh McLeod Stephen Orchard Jack
Priestley Geoffrey Robson and Doreen Rosman.
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