David W. Bebbington
"At the Pure Fountain of Thy Word"
Apologetics
“Andrew Fuller, more than any other man, defined the theological position that was to be adopted by most Baptists for long into the nineteenth century. Here a collection of fresh essays examines how he defended his version of Evangelical Calvinism against Deists, Socinians and Universalists, against Sandemanians, antinomians and high Calvinists, and against Arminians, a fellow Baptist and critics of Baptist missions.”
History & Biography
“John Rippon, a prominent leader of the Evangelical Baptists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, receives thorough scholarly appraisal in this book. Pastor, preacher, hymn writer and editor, Rippon displayed a global vision of the advance of the gospel.”
Theology
“George Beasley-Murray was a New Testament scholar who served as principal of Spurgeon's College, London, from 1958 to 1973. His 'Baptism in the New Testament' (1963), the 'bombshell' of the title of this book, argued for a much higher view of baptism than had been customary among Baptists. Justin Nalls shows the central place of Beasley-Murray in debate among Baptists about the meaning of baptism during the twentieth century.”
History & Biography
“The Bruderhof was a community of Christians who tried to live a simple life dedicated to the ideal of peace. Their visionary German founder Eberhard Arnold had started the movement in the wake of the disasters that enveloped Germany after the First World War. . . Ian Randall has written a full, evocative, and appealing account of a group who in troubled times ‘wanted to follow Jesus and do his will.’”
A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought
History & Biography
“Baptists have existed in Europe for four hundred years and have developed rich Christian traditions of their own. This volume provides a window into their beliefs and practices. It embraces the whole of the continent, covering worship, church order, mission, and ethics. The book will be a standard work of reference for understanding this vigorous body of Christians.”
A Global History of Seventh-day Adventists
History & Biography
“The Seventh-day Adventist movement originated in the 1840s among scattered New Englanders who believed ardently in the imminence of the second coming of Christ; over time, the movement became an elaborately structured global church identified with health reform and educational effort as well as the simple gospel. Michael W. Campbell and Edward Martin Allen have written a stimulating and authoritative account of its development which, with an extensive glossary of technical terms and questions for discussion, will be invaluable for Adventists and non-Adventists alike.”
A Short History of Christian Zionism
History & Biography
“Christian Zionism is the conviction that the Jewish people have a biblically sanctioned claim to a homeland in Palestine. Donald M. Lewis traces the convoluted history of this belief, pointing out its antecedents in post-Reformation thought, its development by nineteenth-century evangelicals with Lord Shaftesbury at their head, and its subsequent flowering in modified dispensationalist teaching. Lewis insists that while Christian Zionism has become a powerful bulwark of the state of Israel, its theological basis is still shifting under the influence of global charismatic renewal. He is a fair-minded and sure-footed guide through the intricacies of prophetic belief and international politics.”
Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953
History & Biography
“Sydney Diocese occupies a strategic position in the world Anglican communion, and Moore College a uniquely influential role in the diocese. Except for a brief period before 1897, the college was always Evangelical in teaching, but the nature of its Evangelicalism varied over time. By explaining the stance of its three principals during the first half of the twentieth century, John McIntosh illuminates the trajectory of Australian Evangelicalism and global Anglicanism alike.”
History & Biography
“In a case study of the fashionable Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, Paul Wilson demonstrates that members of its nineteenth-century business elite gradually discarded traditional spiritual priorities. The process culminated when in 1921 the church’s minister, the imperious T. T. Shields, divided his church by publicly denouncing the laxity of his own deacons. Sociocultural change, not just intellectual broadening, was responsible for secularization, a conclusion which undoubtedly applies to many other congregations across the evangelical world.”
History & Biography
Foreword
“These papers . . . on the subject of Baptists and mission cover theory and practice, senders and sent, successes and failures. They illuminate some of the ways in which members of the denomination in many lands have undertaken efforts to transmit and embody the Christian faith.”
Baptists and Public Life in Canada
History & Biography
“The public arena in Canada has been the scene of vigorous combats involving Baptists on social, political, and intellectual questions as well as on ecclesiastical issues. Here is a set of vivid cameos of members of the denomination contesting dominion from sea to sea.”
History & Biography
“Conflict challenges the Christian conscience, fostering divergent responses. Hence Baptists have commonly sought peace, sometimes to the extent of condemning war outright, but equally they have often believed that justice required the taking up of arms, even with enthusiasm. The detailed and penetrating international studies contained in this book illuminate contrasting attitudes over the centuries, showing how war has put Baptists to the test, spiritually as well as materially.”
History & Biography
“The Baptists of Canada are diverse—by region, by ethnic background, and even by denominational allegiance. Yet they have common roots among seventeenth-century Christians who came to appreciate that the church should consist of self-conscious believers and be entered by believer’s baptism. Here their convictions and practices are carefully traced—and explained with an eye to the future.”
Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissar
History & Biography
“Tom Aitken has written a vivid account, . . . at the same time illuminating the contrast between the evangelistic aims of The Salvation Army and the traditionalist temper of Russian Orthodoxy.”
Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878–1978
History & Biography
“The fundamentalist Baptists of Canada were not a small coterie of militant obscurantists but a varied set of conservative Protestants with diverse institutions and shifting priorities. In a volume that covers the whole of Canada and extends over an eventful century, eight authors ably portray the contours of a movement with strong but changing Christian convictions.”
Champions of Choice and Change
History & Biography
“Dissenters from the Church of England were pioneers of religious liberty. They championed principles and practices that advanced education, equality, and individualism, in many cases wanting to extend freedom to Jews and women. Here Dennis Bustin makes out the case that the roots of democratic values in the modern world are to be found before the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the Nonconformity of the seventeenth century.”
History & Biography
“Here is a fresh assessment of Charles Simeon, the great evangelical Anglican clergyman of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, from 1783 to 1836. Those whom he helped prepare for ministry, the ‘Sims’, established the continuing evangelical tradition in the Church of England. In this well-organized study, Zack DiPrima stresses the rooting of Simeon’s powerful preaching in his pastoral theology and so illuminates the profound influence of the man.”
History & Biography
“Charles Simeon was the most influential evangelical in the age of Wilberforce—a powerful influence over successive generations of Cambridge ordinands. Here is an attractive vignette of a great preacher and a great man.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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