Battle for the church
Subtitle: an account of the epic struggle to recover the New Testament pattern of church life in England, 1517-1644, or : how the church in England was delivered from the gross darkness endured through twelve hundred years of Popery, brought into Puritanism and from thence to the rise of the Particular Baptists
By: David Gay
Publisher: Brachus
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lowestoft, UK; Castro Valley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780952998204
Subjects: Church history; Reformation; Baptists; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. The distant rumble of battle; title: 2. England joins the fray; title: 3. The rise of the Anabaptists; title: 4. 'Strike, wound, cut asunder'; title: 5. Geneva; title: 6. The first nonconformist; title: 7. Rome strikes back; title: 8. The immovable object; title: 9. The lost cause; title: 10. The secret churches; title: 11. The professor's bombshell; title: 12. Thinking the unthinkable; title: 13. 'A threefold cord'; title: 14. The weapon of humor; title: 15. The Cambridge wonder; title: 16. 'Boiled roots'; title: 17. 'The wisest fool in Christendom'; title: 18. From Gainsborough to Amsterdam; title: 19. Quicksilver; title: 20. The Berean spirit; title: part 1; title: 21. The Berean spirit; title: part 2; title: 22. Back to England; title: 23. Heaven on earth; title: almost; title: 24. A fruitful development at Southwark; title: 25. 'The country of the Gardarenes'; title: 26. The opening of the floodgates.