Interfaces : Baptists and others : international Baptists studies / edited by David Bebbington and Martin Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bebbington, David, 1949- editor.

Sutherland, Martin, editor.

Series:

Studies in Baptist history and thought.

Studies in Baptist History and Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptists--Missions.

Baptists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Place of Publication:

Milton Keynes, England : Paternoster, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing how Baptists throughout the world have related to other Christians and to other institutions and movements over the centuries. The theme of this collection of twenty-one essays, 'Baptists and Others', includes relations with other Christians and with other institutions and movements. What, the authors ask, has been the Baptist experience of engaging with different groups and developments? The theme has been explored by means of case studies, some of which are very specific in time and place while others cover long periods and more than one country. In the first half the contents are arranged by period. The first section examines early Baptists, the second nineteenth-century Baptists in Britain and America and the third Baptists in the twentieth century. The second half turns to various parts of the world. There is a section on Australia, another on New Zealand and a third on Asia and Africa. The overall picture is one of a complicated series of relationships as Baptists defined themselves as different from other bodies and yet, especially in the twentieth century, tried to co-operate in mission and ecumenical endeavour. 'Baptists are often regarded as enthusiastic separatists and unenthusiastic ecumenists. These essays, based on hard evidence rather than passing impressions, are a necessary correction to superficial prejudices and show the reality to be much more complex and nuanced, as well as varied over time and place. The book is a smorgasbord of delights. Yet, readers should avoid the temptation to pick and choose from the menu, ensuring rather that each offering is digested so they enjoy a balance and nutritious meal.' Derek Tidball

Contents:

""Series Preface ""; ""Contents ""; ""Contributors ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part One ""; ""Free Church Sacramentalism: A Surprising Connnection Between Baptists And Anabaptists ""; ""Episcope Without Episcopacy: Baptist Attitudes To Bishops In Seventeenth-Century England ""; ""Part Two ""; ""The Scotch Baptists And The Birth Of The Churches Of Christ ""; ""An Evangelical Anglican Interaction With Baptist Missionary Society Strategy: William Wilberforce And John Ryland, 1807-1824 ""

""General Baptists, Cumberland Presbyterians And Denominational Identity In Frontier Indiana In The Early Nineteenth Century """"Baptist Reactions To Catholics In The United States, 1830-60 ""; ""Part Three ""; ""Baptists And Church Unity In Wales In The Twentieth Century ""; ""Western Canadian Baptists And Ecumenical Initiatives In The Early Twentieth Century ""; ""Baptists And Other Christian Churches In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century ""; ""Baptists And The World, 1900-1940: A �Great Reversal�? ""; ""Part Four ""; ""Australian Baptists And The State: Partner Or Peril? ""

""Christians First And Baptists Second? South Australian Baptists And Other Denominations, 1836 To 1936 """"From Baptist Leader To Presbyterian Leader: The Rev. Donovan Mitchell (1890-1954) ""; ""Baptists And Indigenous Australians ""; ""Part Five ""; ""Three Countries, Two Conversions, One Man: J.J. Doke - Baptists, Humanity And Justice ""; ""Prophets At The Gate? New Zealand Baptists And Social Justice In The 1990S ""; ""Baptist Worship And Contemporary Culture: A New Zealand Case Study ""; ""Part Six ""

""The First Australasian Baptist Missionary: Ellen Arnold And The Bengalis, 1882-1931 """"Baptists And The Reformed Church In Mission: Indonesian Papua In The Late Twentieth Century ""; ""Baptists And Buddhists In Burma, 1813-2009 ""; ""Baptists And New Christian Movements In West Africa ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 30, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78078-314-0