Baptist History in England and America
Subtitle: personalities, positions, and practices
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Maitland, FL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781545622193
Table of contents: title: Preface / Gerald Priest; title: Part one : Preliminary essentials.; title: 1. Introductory essays on our Baptist heritage; title: Part two : English General Baptists to the New Connection.; title: 2. The English Separatist roots of General Baptists; title: 3. General Baptist beginnings : Thomas Helwys to Thomas Grantham; title: 4. General Baptist doctrinal decline and the rise of the New Connection; title: Part three : English Particular Baptists to the Down Grade Controversy.; title: 5. The politico-religious landscape of the earliest Particular Baptist churches; title: 6. Three key Baptist leaders : Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and Benjamin Keach; title: 7. Particular Baptist confessions of faith; title: 8. John Gill and the Modern Question : the emergence of Antinomianism; title: 9. The rise of Evangelical Calvinism : life of Andrew Fuller to the Prayer Call of 1784; title: 10. William Carey : his life and ministry; title: 11. Charles Spurgeon : his life and ministry; title: Part four : Baptists in America.; title: 12. Roger Williams and John Clarke : founders of the first two Baptist churches in America and co-founders of Rhode Island; title: 13. Seventeenth-century Baptists in Massachusetts; title: 14. William Screven, Elias Keach, and Morgan Edwards : church planting, expansion, and higher education; title: 15. The Separate Baptists : struggle for religious freedom in North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia; title: 16. Isaac Backus, John Leland, and their associates : final steps toward religious liberty; title: 17. Pioneer missionaries : Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice, and John Mason Peck; title: 18. Northern Baptist seminaries and the rise of theological liberalism; title: 19. The rise and development of Baptist fundamentalism; title: 20. The Southern Baptist Convention : its strong foundation, rise of liberalism, and conservative resurgence; title: Part five : Sources for Baptist ecclesiology.; title: 21. Additional tools and resources; title: Appendixes.; title: Reconciling old-style - new-style calendar dates; title: Overview of Free Will Baptists in America; title: Travel guide to historical Baptist sites in England, Wales, and America