History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771-1892
Subtitle: From John Gill to C.H. Spurgeon
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Published: March 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780851519203
Subjects: History of religion; Christianity - Baptist; Christianity - Calvinist; Christianity - History - Protestant; Religion - Church History; Religion - Theology
Description: 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 historytheological giants like John Gill, Andrew Fuller, Wiliam Gadsby, and Charles Spurgeonbut also with lesser-known lights, men like the hymn writer Benjamin Beddome, the eccentric John Collett Ryland, Abraham Booth, and John Stevens.