Free Baptist Cyclopaedia


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Every where ...


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American Speech


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Annual of the Northern Baptist Convention


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Issue for 1909 includes the annual report of the American Baptist Missionary Union; for 1909-40 include the annual reports of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the American Baptist Publication Society; for 1910-40 of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society; for 1912-40 of the American Baptist Historical Society; for 1914-40 of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West, which merged in 1915 to form the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.







Baptist Theology


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This title offers a comprehensive analysis of Baptist theology. Embracing in one common trajectory the major Baptist confessions of faith, the major Baptist theologians, and the principal Baptist theological movements and controversies, this book spans four centuries of Baptist doctrinal history. Acknowledging first the pre-1609 roots (patristic, medieval, and Reformational) of Baptist theology, it examines the Arminian versus Calvinist issues that were first expressed by the General Baptists and the Particular Baptists; that dominated English and American Baptist theology during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from Helwys and Smyth and from Bunyan and Kiffin to Gill, Fuller, Backus, and Boyce; and, that were quickened by the 'awakenings' and the missionary movement. Concurrently there were the Baptist defense of the Baptist distinctives vis-a-vis the pedobaptist world and the unfolding of a strong Baptist confessional tradition. Then during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the liberal versus evangelical issues became dominant with Hovey, Strong, Rauschenbusch, and Henry in the North and Mullins, Conner, Hobbs, and Criswell in the South even as a distinctive Baptist Landmarkism developed, the discipline of biblical theology was practiced and a structured ecumenism was pursued. Missiology both impacted Baptist theology and took it to all the continents, where it became increasingly indigenous. Conscious that Baptists belong to the free churches and to the believers' churches, a new generation of Baptist theologians at the advent of the twenty-first century appears somewhat more Calvinist than Arminian and decidedly more evangelical than liberal.