Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia
Subtitle: the history and transformation of a free church tradition
By: Malkhaz Songulashvili
Series: Studies in world Christianity; Studies in world Christianity (Waco, Tex.)
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Waco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781481301107
Subjects: Protestants; Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia; Baptists; History
Description: "Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG), provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in Georgian, Russian, German, and English--and translating many of these crucial documents for the first time into English--he recounts the history of the EBCG from its formation in 1867 to the present."--Book jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-493) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion in Georgia and Baptists in Europe; title: The setting for religious renewal in Georgia; title: The early activity of Georgian evangelical Christians and Baptists 1919-1941; title: The formation of the Georgian ECB's institutional identity [1942-1989]; title: Evangelism in post-Soviet Georgia; title: Reforms in the life of the ECB community; title: The missiological experience of the evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia.