Recycling the Past or Researching History?

by Thompson, Philip E.; Cross, Anthony R.; Brachlow, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781597527859
• ISBN10: 1597527858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Recycling the Past or Researching History? brings together an international group of Baptist scholars who explore various issues in Baptist historiography and myths. Contributors examine and re-examine areas of Baptist life and thought about which little is known or the received wisdom is in need of revision. The common theme tying these studies together is that research into Baptist history should deal with the primary sources and not, as has too often been the case, rely uncritically on the scholarship of previous generations. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction: Caring for Baptist Memory	p. xv
Confessional Identity, Denominational Institutions and Relations with Others: A Study in Changing Contexts	p. 1
Churches and the Church	p. 25
The Priesthood of All Believers and the Necessity of the Church	p. 50
The Roots of Baptists in Community, and therefore, Voluntary Membership not Individualism, or, the High-Flying Modernist, Stripped of his Ontological Assumptions, Appears to Hold the Ecclesiology of a Yaho	p. 67
A Good Walk Spoiled?: Revisiting Baptist Soteriology	p. 84
The Myth of the Missing Spirituality: Spirituality among English Baptists in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 106
The Myth of English Baptist Anti-Sacramentalism	p. 128
Forgotten Sisters: The Contributions of some Notable but Un-noted British Baptist Women	p. 163
'As It Was in the Beginning'(?): The Myth of Changelessness in Baptist Life and Belief	p. 184
1653 or 1656: When did Oxford Baptists Join the Abingdon Association?	p. 207
The Fifth Monarchist John Pendarves (d.1656): A Victim of 'Studious Bastard Consumption'?	p. 220
The Myth of High Calvinism?	p. 231
Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Baptists and the Political Realm, with Particular Reference to the Thought of Andrew Fuller	p. 264
Episcopacy in the Baptist Tradition	p. 279
Strict Baptists and Reformed Baptists in England, 1955-76	p. 294
General Index	p. 317
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