Robert Strivens

The Wapping Baptists

History & Biography

“Nathan Sherman has produced a fascinating account of the Baptist congregation in Wapping in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, based on a detailed examination of their church book. The conclusions that he is able to draw about the day-to-day running of the church, the social and economic state of its members, and its relations with its pastors provide valuable insights into the dissenting and Baptist experience of those turbulent years and make a significant contribution to a better understanding of early particular Baptist church life.”