Recycling the Past or Researching History?

by Thompson, Philip E.

• ISBN13: 9781842271223
• ISBN10: 1842271229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Authentic Media

Summary

This collection of essays examinessome of the "myths" in Baptist historyand theology: these include theidea of development in Baptistthought, studies in the church, baptismalsacramentalism, community,spirituality, soul competency, women,Baptist bishops, creeds and the Bible,and overseas missions.

Author Biography

Jennifer Dueck earned her D.Phil. in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford, during which time she was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. A Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Dr Dueck has held positions in Middle Eastern history at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. In support of her continuing academic research, she directs the Middle East and North Africa Initiative for the United World Colleges International.
Philip E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Heritage, North American Baptist Seminary, Sloux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Anthony R. Cross is a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction : caring for Baptist memory
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
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