A Noble Company

A Noble Company
Author: Terry Wolever
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Baptists
ISBN: 9781888514261

The aim of these volumes is to recount the lives and collective deeds of the Particular/Regular Baptists in America. The persons whose lives are recalled in these pages were indeed a noble company of men, women, and children, who exemplify for us in modern times the struggles and triumphs of "a sect everywhere spoken against," and who are worthy of our remembrance.

The Sung Theology of the English Particular Baptist Revival

The Sung Theology of the English Particular Baptist Revival
Author: Joseph V. Carmichael
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725270846

Anne Steele (1717–1778) originally wrote her hymns to be sung in the Baptist congregation pastored by her father. The foremost female contemporary of hymn-writing giants Charles Wesley, John Newton, and William Cowper, her hymns are infused with spiritual sensitivity, theological depth, and raw emotion. She eventually published her hymns under the pseudonym, Theodosia, which means “God’s Gift.” She believed God had given her a gift to share. Steele’s work was warmly received in her own day. Pastor and publishing pioneer of the modern English hymnal, John Rippon, included more than fifty of her hymns in the various topical sections of his wildly successful Selection of Hymns. Rippon’s hymnal was popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but was especially influential during the nineteenth-century revival and renewal of English Particular Baptists. This book introduces Steele’s hymns in the context of her life and times and of Rippon’s hymnal. It illustrates that Steele’s approach to hymn-writing is a model of biblical spirituality. Each hymn as printed in Rippon’s hymnal, and thus sung by congregations and used as devotional literature, is considered. The sung theology of these congregations is a gift to the church universal and worth rediscovering in the twenty-first century.

Baptists and Revivals

Baptists and Revivals
Author: William Lee Pitts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881466836

Since their notable influence during the mid-eighteenth century, revivals have been a key element in the Baptist story: Survey histories of Baptists often discuss the impact of the First and Second Great Awakenings on Baptist growth during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. But following those initial revivals the Baptist narratives often shift to other important subjects and neglect later revivals. Yet revivals have remained a significant means to Baptist growth. This book addresses the larger story of revivals in Baptist from the Great Awakening to the present day and across the globe. Book jacket.

Orthodox Radicals

Orthodox Radicals
Author: Matthew C. Bingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190912367

During the mid-seventeenth century, Baptists existed on the fringes of religious life in England. Matthew C. Bingham examines this early group and argues that they did not see themselves as a part of a larger, all-encompassing Baptist movement. Rather, their rejection of infant baptism was but one of a number of doctrinal revisions then taking place among English puritans. Orthodox Radicals is a much needed complication of our understanding of Baptist identity, setting the early English Baptists in the cultural, political, and theological context of the wider puritan milieu out of which they arose.

The Evangelical Revival

The Evangelical Revival
Author: G.M. Ditchfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2005-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135364796

An introduction to the evangelical revival of the 18th and early 19th century, important as a cultural force during that period. The book is intended for A' level and undergraduate courses on the 18th century.

History of the English Calvinistic Baptists, 1771-1892

History of the English Calvinistic Baptists, 1771-1892
Author: Robert W. Oliver
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book traces the story of the English Calvinistic Baptists from the death of John Gill in 1771 to that of Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1892. It deals not only with the well-known digures in this community's history'theological giants like John Gill, Andrew Fuller, Wiliam Gadsby, and Charles Spurgeon'but also with lesser-known lights, men like the hymn writer Benjamin Beddome, the eccentric John Collett Ryland, Abraham Booth, and John Stevens. 'Wide and deep reading in the writings of these men has given Dr. Robert Oliver an excellent grasp of thier various theological perspectives...a...masterfull book." (Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin)

A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1611/1612)

A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1611/1612)
Author: Thomas Helwys
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780865545748

By the beginning of the twentieth century, only four known copies of the book survived. Now, thanks to the careful work of Richard Groves, Helwys's "The Mystery of Iniquity" is available in a reader-friendly edition. Groves's introduction sets the document in context, not only as an important and influential historical event but as shedding yet more light on whence we have come.