Steven R. Harmon

All Who Love Our Blessed Redeemer

History & Biography

“One of the most encouraging theological developments among Baptists in recent years is a reframing of Baptist identity in terms of its ‘catholicity.’ Graham’s exploration of this theme in the ministry of John Ryland Jr. not only demonstrates convincingly that this more recent turn to catholicity in Baptist thought is not unprecedented but retrieves an important resource from within the tradition for constructive Baptist theology today.”

Communion, Covenant, and Creativity

Theology

“Fiddes, Haymes, and Kidd not only make a compelling case for the enrichment of the doctrine of the communion of saints by a Baptist theology of covenant. By locating engagement with these theological concepts in our encounter with the material things of the visual, literary, and musical arts, Communion, Covenant, and Creativity delightfully succeeds in rendering this article of faith as something not merely to be believed, but also to be experienced and practiced.”

Contesting the Body of Christ

Theology

“At a time when each step forward of bilateral and multilateral ecumenical progress seems met with two steps backward into worsening division, Werntz offers a promising approach to thinking theologically about the church: engaging the concrete locality of the marks of the Spirit’s work of making ecclesial community and encouraging practices of formation by which they are made more fully visible.”

Free Churches and the Body of Christ

Theology

“No advocate or critic of the current quest in the Free Church tradition for a fuller catholicity and deeper commitment to the visible unity of the church catholic should proceed further in reflecting on this movement without reading, marking, and inwardly digesting this agenda-setting book.”

Gathering Disciples

Preaching & Worship

“Gathering Disciples is not only a well-deserved celebration of the contributions of Baptists' most significant liturgical theologian--it serves as a splendid showcase of the impressive theological work now being done by Baptist theologians in, with, and for their own tradition but also in, with, and for the whole church. An indispensable resource for the renewal of ecclesial life in Baptist and Free Church communities and for the ecumenical reception of the theological gifts these communities offer to the global church.”

Gathering Together

Preaching & Worship

“Free churches are increasingly finding their way to the liturgical riches of the whole church and finding there the resources they need to form faithful followers of Christ. The contributors to this volume have drawn on a wealth of pastoral experience and theological expertise to provide ministers of such churches with invaluable guidance in this journey.”

Re-membering the Body

Theology

“Bullard's fresh imagining of how free church observances of the Lord's Supper are means by which God makes the church visibly one invites his readers to 'go further' on the eucharistic path toward the ecumenical future than the Baptist tradition's most creative systematician may have envisioned possible, yet in ways fully consistent with the tradition's distinctive insights . . . a must-read for anyone who dares dream the fulfillment of Christ's prayer for the unity of his church.”

Renewing a Modern Denomination

History & Biography

“Goodliff’s Renewing a Modern Denomination is not merely a chronicle of significant recent developments in the life of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, but an absorbing account of the often fraught and sometimes fruitful tension between missiological and theological renewal movements within the denomination. A careful work of historical and theological scholarship by a rising pastor-theologian who has already done much to advance the forms of ecclesial renewal explored in this book.”

The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950–2015: Volume Six

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Thinking With the Church

Theology

“Derek Hatch proposes a remedy for the ‘strained relationship’ between Baptists and theology: connecting the theological concerns that Baptists do have—even when not aware that they are doing theology when they engage them—with the practice of theology by the whole church. Thinking with the Church is must reading for all Baptists who are conscious of the shortcomings of their ecclesial life and yearn for the renewal of theology that will help Baptists envision for their churches a fuller participation in God’s life.”