Baptists category: 159 books
Thinking With the Church
Toward a Renewal of Baptist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Over the centuries, Baptists have labored to follow Christ in faithful devotion and service. More recently, they have occasionally partnered with fellow Christians from other traditions in these efforts while learning from each other along the way. In Thinking With the Church, Derek Hatch argues that...
At Ease in Zion
Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First published in 1967, Rufus Spain’s thorough investigation into Southern Baptist attitudes set the stage for research on religion in the American South. In At Ease in Zion, Spain questions the titular “ease” with society that Southern Baptists seemed to maintain following the Civil War. His...
The Making of the Primitive Baptists
A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the Primitive Baptists with other developments in American Christianity in the Early Republic.
by Jarrel, W. A.
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Notwithstanding that many of the ablest Biblical expositors and theologians rightly regard the Romish church as the apocalyptic, “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth … the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus,” some...
Democratic Religion
Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically...
The Baptist Faith and Message 2000
Critical Issues in America's Largest Protestant Denomination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Southern Baptists are the nation's largest protestant denomination, with over 43,000 churches and millions of members. Since its inception, controversy has surrounded the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, Southern Baptists' most recent confession of faith. The present volume consists of essays by Baptist...
by Gregory A. Wills
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
With 16.3 million members and 44,000 churches, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist group in the world, and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Unlike the so-called mainstream Protestant denominations, Southern Baptists have remained stubbornly conservative,...
The Baptist Story
From English Sect to Global Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The Baptist Story is a narrative history spanning over four centuries of a diverse group of people living among distinct cultures on separate continents while finding their identity in Christ and expressing their faith as Baptists. Baptist historians Anthony Chute, Nathan Finn, and Michael Haykin...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith was written by Particular Baptists, who held to a Calvinistic Soteriology in England to give a formal expression of their Christian faith from a Baptist perspective. This confession, like The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) and the Savoy Declaration (1658),...
by Clarence Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This work is not a personal history. For fifteen years I was a layman in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and having had my attention called to the subjects and mode of Baptism, after two years of careful study of the subject I deemed it my duty to unite with the Baptists.
In my examination of the...
A CHURCH HAS GONE TO HELL
Southern Baptists: A Denomination in a Decade of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
A Church Has Gone to Hell - Southern Baptists: A Denomination in a Decade of Decline analyzes more than 300 services of more than 100 Southern Baptist churches, with the objective of identifying reasons for ten years of declining membership.
The author let the services themselves dictate focal...
Baptist Revival
Reaffirming Baptist Principles in Today's Changing Church Scene
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
We need to know how we have gotten to this place in the history of Christianity, as Baptists. What sacrifices have been made by Baptists that have shaped our distinct identity today. It is my concern that many of these cherished teachings may be forgotten, in a rush to not turn off people by teaching...
The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950–2015: Volume Two
Baptists, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
James Leo Garrett Jr., has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous...
by Charles Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody was to America....