Recently added articles from Baptist History and Heritage:
Telling Baptist stories: 400 years later.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... For the past few years, the Baptist History and Heritage Society has been in an informational mode--seeking to get the word out about the 400th anniversary of Baptist beginnings. We have encouraged churches to celebrate and have promoted ways in which all Baptists can observe this ...
A Baptist reality check.
Jan 01, 2009; ... It's 2009. Baptists' 400th anniversary has arrived. This year provides wonderful opportunities to assess Baptist history and identity. Three points occur to me. First, Baptists have made enormous contributions to human civilization and to the forward progress of Christianity. Second, ...
Early English Baptists.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Upwards of seven hundred Baptist congregations are utilizing the Baptists' 400th Anniversary Celebration free bulletin inserts produced by the Baptist History and Heritage Society and Mercer University's Center for Baptist Studies. I suspect several thousand additional churches are making ...
John Smyth's request for Mennonite recognition and admission: four newly translated letters, 1610-1612: under the leadership of John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, the people who would become the first Baptists met Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at the beginning of the Dutch Golden Age.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Prompted by a theological disagreement with Smyth, Helwys returned to England in 1612 and planted the first General Baptist church. The disagreement centered on the validity of Smyth's se-baptism and differing views on joining the Waterlander Mennonite church in Amsterdam. (1) ...
Arguing regenerate church membership: Baptist identity during its first decade, 1610-1620: non-Baptists seeking membership in a Baptist church frequently inquire as to why Baptists insist that they be rebaptized.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The explanation normally takes a while: they are told that Baptists understand baptism differently than do most denominations. (1) Whereas most denominations practice infant baptism, according to the thinking of most Baptists baptism should follow expression of faith in Christ that can ...
John Griffith: Baptist prisoner of conscience: Baptists in late seventeenth-century England experienced persecution, just as Baptists had done since their beginning in 1609.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Several English laws made the practice of any faith except that of the Church of England (the Anglican Church) dangerous. Since 1534, the Act of Supremacy demanded that English citizens declare that the king was not only "the only Supreme Governor of this realm, and all other [of] His ...
Hanserd Knollys and Mystical Babylon Unveiled: contemporary perspectives and new observations on early English Baptist apocalypticism: seventeenth-century particular Baptist pastor, Hanserd Knollys, was born around 1599 in Lincolnshire, England.(Biography)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The son of an Anglican rector, (1) Knollys pursued a career in the Church of England until his Puritan-influenced disagreements with Anglicanism led him to abandon the Church entirely. (2) Following a short and harrowing stay in Puritan New England, he adopted Baptist views; a perspective ...
The peculiar ventures of particular Baptist pastor William Kiffin and King Charles II of England: the most popular narrative about the seventeenth-century English Baptist pastor and wealthy London merchant, William Kiffin, involves Charles H asking him for a loan of forty thousand pounds.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... As the story goes, Kiffin responded by offering the king a gift of ten thousand pounds in lieu of the loan. Charles accepted the gift. Kiffin later quipped that he had saved thirty thousand pounds. English Baptist historian Thomas Crosby contributed this anecdote to the historical ...
James Robinson Graves: history in the service of ecclesiology: many Baptists in America revere a small, prosaic booklet that bears a captivating title--"The Trail of Blood".... Following the Christians down through the centuries ... or The History of Baptist Churches from the Time of Christ, Their Founder, to the Present Day.(Biography)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This 56-page sprint through almost two thousand years of church history comes equipped with a foldout timeline that is generously peppered with red dots, dots that indicate the sufferings and martyrdoms of true Christians (i.e., Baptists) through the ages, usually at the hands of "papal" ...
Turning Points in Baptist History: A Festschrift in Honor of Harry Leon McBeth.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Turning Points in Baptist History: A Festschrift in Honor of Harry Leon McBeth. Edited by Michael E. Williams, Sr. and Walter B. Shurden, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2008. 332 pp. Excellent teachers and writers of Baptist history inevitably shape future historians and ...
Readings in Baptist History: Four Centuries of Selected Documents.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Readings in Baptist History: Four Centuries of Selected Documents. By Joseph Early, Jr., Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2008. 281 pp. In Readings in Baptist History: Four Centuries of Selected Documents, Joseph Early, Jr., notes in his preface, "Since this is a sourcebook of ...
No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s. By Keith E. Durso, Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society and Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 2007. 292 pp. For centuries Baptists were a hated sect, persecuted over their insistence in ...
Cecil Sherman: By My Own Reckoning.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cecil Sherman: By My Own Reckoning. By Cecil Sherman. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2008. 280 pp. I have reviewed books by and about Baptists for thirty-five years. Never has a book in Baptist studies charged my intellect, memory, and emotions as much as this one. By My Own ...
Paradox and Perseverance: Hanserd Knollys, Particular Baptist Pioneer in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Paradox and Perseverance: Hanserd Knollys, Particular Baptist Pioneer in Seventeenth-Century England. Studies in Baptist History and Thought, vol. 23. By Dennis C. Bustin. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006. 380 pp. Paradox and Perseverance is an outstanding biography of an ...
Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton, Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton, Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian (Volume 4: Theological Works). Compiled and with an Introduction by Joann Ford Watson, Macon: Mercer University Press, 2007. 321 pp. Thanks to the work of Joann Ford Watson and ...
Journal: John Frederick Weishampel, Jr., Baltimore, MD, 1858-1895.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Journal: John Frederick Weishampel, Jr., Baltimore, MD, 1858-1895. Transcribed and edited by A. E. Weishampel and C. V. Weishampel. Columbus, GA: Brentwood Christian Press, 2007. 146 pp. "In reading History," wrote John Frederick Weishampel, Jr., in 1862, "we are apt to think ...
Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century. By Jewel L. Spangler, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. 288 pp. Baptists' success in eighteenth-century Virginia has long interested ...
Best for the church and best for the state.(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; ... While putting together this issue of Baptist History and Heritage, I realized that it will be distributed in early November--at about the same time that Americans are going to the polls to elect a new president. In what has been an extremely long campaign period, organizations concerned ...
Publications ministry.(Baptist History and Heritage Society)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Publications comprise the most distinctive and recognizable ministry of he Baptist History and Heritage Society. This ministry helps to equip society members, students, professors, pastors, and persons in the pews to appreciate, learn, teach, and act on Baptist history and principles. ...
Maybe it's time to dust off John Leland.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Quick, name a famous Baptist who is long dead and whose collection of writings is now selling for about $400--for a used copy of a 1969 reprint! Now, name a famous Baptist who insisted that churches and ministers should not receive tax favoritism from governments. While known ...