Baptists category: 159 books
by Thomas Armitage
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This classic, first published in 1893, chronicles the history of the Baptist church in America, starting with the Pilgrims and Puritans, moving through the American Revolution, and ending with some fantastic mission work around the world.
This editions includes an Active Table of Contents....
Interfaces Baptists and Others
International Baptist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The book is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing how Baptists throughout the world have related to other Christians and to other institutions and movements over the centuries.
The theme of this collection of twenty-one essays, 'Baptists and Others', includes relations with other Christians...
by Roy Talbert Jr., Meggan A. Farish
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Antipedo Baptists of Georgetown is the history of the First Baptist Church of Georgetown, South Carolina, as well as the history of Baptists in the colony and state. Roy Talbert, Jr., and Meggan A. Farish detail Georgetown Baptists’ long and tumultuous history, which began with the migration...
Order and Ardor
The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The origins of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world’s largest Protestant denomination, is most often traced back to the colorful, revivalist Separate Baptist movement that rose out of the Great Awakening in the mid-1700s. During that same period the American South was likewise home to the...
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed.
Focusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, Getting Right with God examines the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a...
Orthodox Radicals
Baptist Identity in the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life. Today, Baptists have developed into one of the world's largest Protestant denominations. Despite this impressive transformation, those first English Baptists remain chronically misunderstood....
A Choosing People
The History of the Seventh Day Baptists
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The freedom and responsibility of choice is one of the basic tenets of Baptist beliefs. Seventh Day Baptists as a part of this Baptist heritage for over 350 years have upheld and practiced that right. The decision to follow the Bible instead of ecclesiastical authority and tradition led them to accept...
by Devon Dick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Morant Bay Rebellion, otherwise known as the ‘Native Baptist War’ represents an important watershed in Jamaican history. Traditional historiography has often represented the actions of Paul Bogle the hero/villain Baptist Deacon and his followers when they marched on the Morant Bay court house...
by Rev. Dr. A. L. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The Southern Baptist Convention is the only denomination to have been created from the idea that the African, by biblical decree, was forever doomed to slavery. This book explores how such an incredible evil could have beep perpetuated upon a people by Southern Baptists and why they felt compelled...
by William H. Brackney
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
With 110 million members worldwide, Baptists are surpassed only by Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups as the largest segment of Christians. The term 'Baptist' has its origins with the Anabaptists, the denomination historically linked to the English Separatist movement of the 16th century. Although...
by William H. Brackney
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
With 110 million members worldwide, Baptists are surpassed only by Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups as the largest segment of Christians. The term 'Baptist' has its origins with the Anabaptists, the denomination historically linked to the English Separatist movement of the 16th century. Although...
by John L. Waller
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Even during the world’s midnight, when the dark cloud of papal superstition was spread in blackness over the moral sky of the civilized nations, here and there a star was seen, bright, beautiful and peculiar, pouring celestial splendor upon the surrounding gloom. When Popery was the world’s despot-when,...
A Distinctive People
A Thematic Study of Aspects of the Witness of Baptists in Scotland in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In the twenty-first century there are an increasing number of books in different fields that are evaluating critically aspects of life in the previous century. The Religious History of British people in this period is a significant part of that story. A Distinctive People will evaluate aspects of...
The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists
Restoring New Testament Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
According to the scholarly and pastoral authors of this essay collection, sixteenth-century Anabaptists have much to teach Baptists and other Free Church evangelicals.
A study of the lives and theology of evangelical Anabaptists encourages a reader to dig deeper into the Bible, count the cost...