Pulpit and People: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Baptist Life and Thought - Couverture souple

Briggs, John H. Y.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1608991644 ISBN 13 : 9781608991648

Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

John H. Y. Briggs is currently an Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic, and a trustee of Keston College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1608991644
• ISBN 13: 9781608991648
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible