Baptists and the Bible

by Bush, L. Russ; Nettles, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780805418323
• ISBN10: 0805418326
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: B&H Academic

Summary

A revised edition for students at the divinity school level who study the origins of modern Baptists in 17th Century England, bibliology of the 18th and 19th century Baptists of England and America, and the sources for present-day uncertainties in the field of bibliology, especially as it relates to the Southern Baptist Convention as well as the Northern Baptist Convention. An excellent tool for researchers, scholars, as well as laymen.

Author Biography

Tom J. Nettles is professor of Historical Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and he currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky.

Russ Bush is Academic Dean at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he teaches theology and philosophy of religion. Bush lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Original Edition(1980)	xi
Foreword to the Revised Edition (1999)	xiii
Preface to the Original Edition(1980)	xv
Preface to the Revised Edition(1999)	xix
Acknowledgments for the Original Edition(1980)	xxiii
Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition(1999)	xxiv
Introduction	1	(10)
Part One ``IN THE BEGINNING GOD''
``The Spirit of God Moved Upon the Face of the Waters''	11	(18)
John Symth	12	(3)
Thomas Helwys	15	(3)
John Murton	18	(2)
Later General Baptists	20	(3)
Thomas Grantham	23	(4)
Conforming to the Letter	27	(2)
``And God...Divided the Waters''	29	(10)
View of Scripture in the 1644 Confession	32	(7)
``And God Saw That It Was Good''	39	(16)
The Second London Confession	41	(1)
Of the Holy Scriptures	41	(3)
Exposition of the Chapter	44	(7)
The Philadelphia Association	51	(4)
``The Waters Brought Forth Abundantly''	55	(28)
Roger Williams	56	(5)
Isaac Backus and a Great Cloud of Witnesses	61	(4)
John Bunyan	65	(10)
Benjamin Keach	75	(8)
``Be Fruitful, and Multiply''	83	(24)
John Gill	83	(8)
Andrew Fuller	91	(9)
Dan Taylor	100	(7)
``Unto a Land That I Will Show Thee''	107	(20)
William Carey	108	(8)
Aboniram Judson	116	(11)
``They Separated Themselves the One from the Other''	127	(32)
John Leland	130	(3)
Richard Furman	133	(2)
Francis Wayland	135	(9)
John L. Dagg	144	(15)
Part Two ``A NEW KING . . . WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH''
``Their Gods Shall Be a Snare''	159	(22)
Back to the Bible	160	(1)
What Is Truth?	161	(2)
The Turning Point	163	(5)
Currents of Complexity	168	(13)
``Come, and Let Us Go to Gilgal''	181	(22)
J. P. Boyce	182	(8)
Basil Manly Jr	190	(6)
J. R. Graves	196	(7)
``O My Son Absalom''	203	(18)
John A. Broadus	203	(5)
Crawford H. Toy	208	(13)
``That the Lord May Continue His Word''	221	(16)
Charles H. Spurgeon	221	(8)
John Clifford	229	(8)
``All His Days They Departed Not''	237	(20)
A. H. Strong	237	(11)
Alvah Hovey	248	(9)
``Then Rose Up the Chief of the Fathers''	257	(20)
E. Y. Mullins	258	(11)
A. T. Robertson	269	(8)
``Now These Are Thy Servants''	277	(16)
B. H. Carroll	278	(8)
W. T. Conner	286	(7)
``Do Men Gather Grapes of Thorns?''	293	(28)
Walter Rauschenbusch	294	(2)
Shailer Mathews	296	(4)
William Newton Clarke	300	(5)
Harry Emerson Fosdick	305	(7)
James Josiah Reeve	312	(9)
``The Beginning of Sorrows''	321	(20)
Northern Baptists	321	(5)
Southern Baptists	326	(7)
Elliott and the Controversy	333	(4)
Pushing Over Dominos	337	(4)
Part Three ``WHOM SAY YE THAT I AM?''
``Things Which Are Most Surely Believed Among Us''	341	(18)
The Charlestown Confession of 1665	342	(2)
The Philadelphia Confession of 1742	344	(1)
Articles of Faith of the Kehukee Association of 1777	345	(1)
Principles of Faith of the Sandy Creek Association of 1816	345	(1)
Terms of Union Between the Elkhorn and South Kentucky Associations of 1801	346	(1)
The New Hampshire Confession of 1833	346	(1)
A Treatise on the Faith of the Free Will Baptists (1834 and 1948)	347	(1)
Landmark Confessions (1905 and 1950)	347	(1)
Fundamentalist Baptist Confessions (1921 and 1923)	348	(3)
The Baptist Faith and Message: The Memphis Articles of 1925	351	(1)
The Baptist Faith and Message: The Kansas City Confession of 1963	352	(3)
Scripture in Baptist Confessions of Faith	355	(4)
``Continue Thou in the Things Which Thou Hast Learned''	359	(30)
Preaching the Literal Truth	359	(4)
Defining the Issues	363	(5)
Faith Seeking Understanding	368	(6)
Searching for a Real History	374	(3)
Baptist Theologians	377	(7)
Summarizing Developments	384	(5)
``Of Them Which Keep the Sayings of This Book''	389	(34)
The Sayings of this Book	391	(4)
A Contemporary Restatement of the Historic Baptist View of Scripture	395	(1)
He That Keepeth the Sayings	396	(22)
Blessed Are They That Do His Commandments	418	(5)
Person Index	423	(6)
Subject Index	429	(5)
Scripture Index	434	(4)
Doctrine of Scripture Index	438