International Baptist Studies Conference

The 6th International Baptist Studies Conference takes place in July 2012. For more information see here. It is on the theme of ‘Mirrors and Microscopes: Historical Perceptions of Baptists’

This follows on from previous conferences.
1st: The Gospel in the World 1997 (Regent’s Park College, Oxford)

2nd: Global Baptist History 2000 (Wake Forest University, North Carolina) – currently unpublished

3rd: Baptist Identities 2003 (IBTS, Prague)

4th: Baptists and Mission 2006 (Acadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia)

5th: Interfaces: Baptists and Others 2009 (Melbourne) – currently unpublished

4 Books that Will Help us Indwell our Baptist Story

1. Baptists Through the Centuries: A History of a Global People by David Bebbington (Baylor, 2010) – a one volume history that tells the story and examines our positions onr race, women, the social gospel, religious liberty, foreign mission, church and sacraments, global spread and identity

2. The English Baptists in the 20th Century by Ian Randall (Baptist Historical Society, 2005) – this is an excellent example of good story-telling: readable, informative, and reflective

3. Recycling the Past or Researching History? edited by Philip E. Thompson and Anthony R. Cross (Paternoster, 2005) – this is brilliant set of essays that challenge various baptists myths about the priesthood of believers, independence, salvation, spirituality, sacramentalism, women, and more …

4. Baptist Roots edited by James W. McClendon, Curtis W. Freeman and C. Rosalee Velloso (Judson, 1999) – this is a reader, a selection of excerpts from some baptist historical figures …

Baptist Quarterly, January 2012

Renewing a Vision for Mission Among British Baptists: Historical Perspectives and Theology Reflections. The George Beasley-Murray 2011 Memorial Lecture – Brian Stanley

British Baptist Crucicentrism since the Late Eighteenth Century: Part 2 – David Bebbington

When Associations Did Not Work – Alan Betteridge

Wise Counsel: Letters of John Newton to John Ryland Jr: A Review Article – Peter J. Modern

Plus reviews of Baptists and the World edited by John H. Y. Briggs and Anthony R. Cross; The Death of Christian Britain by Callum G. Brown; Wrestling with the Word by E. Anne Clements; Communion with Christ and his People by Peter J. Modern and others.

Tradition and the Baptist Academy edited by Roger Ward and Phillip Thompson (SBHT Vol. 31; Paternoster, 2011)

Preface – Paul S. Fiddes

Introduction – Roger A. Ward and Phillip E. Thompson

Caught up in the Authorial Void: Tradition, Authority and Dissent – Barry A. Harvey

Bapto…Catholic – E. Glenn Hinson

Dimensions of Memory: Challenges and Tasks in the Baptist Recovery of Tradition – Phillip E. Thompson

Stewards, Interrogators and Inventors: Toward Practice of Tradition – Mark S. Medley

The Regula Fidei as a Guide for Biblical Preaching – Jason K. Lee

Beauty and the Baptists – Stephen M. Garrett

Aquinas and Descartes on Transubstantiation: The Cartesian Imagination in Baptist Life – Jacob L. Goodson

Baptists, Barmen, and the Confessing University – Keith L. Johnson

‘Still Pressing On’: A. T. Robinson as a ‘Traditional’ Baptist – David M. Moffitt

Between the Lion of Sacramentalism and the Bear of Mere Symbolism: Toward an Understanding of Baptist Baptismal Theology in America (1742-1833), with an corresponding Proposal for the Twentieth-First Century – Sheila D. Klopfer

Top Ten Recent Books on Baptist History and Theology

1. Baptist Through the Centuries by David Bebbington (2010)

2. Tracks and Traces: Baptist Identity in Church and Theology by Paul S. Fiddes (2003)

3. Free Church, Free State: A Positive Baptist Vision by Nigel Wright (2005)

4. Baptist Confessions of Faith edited by William Lumpkin (Rev Ed., 2011)

5. Baptist Theology by Stephen R. Holmes (forthcoming 2012)

6. Baptist Theology: A Four-century Study by James Leo Garrett (2009)

7. On Being the Church: Revisioning Baptist Identity by Brian Haymes, Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne (2009)

8. Baptist Roots edited by James W. McClendon, Curtis W. Freeman and C. Rosalee Velloso (1999)

9. Baptist Ways: A History by Bill Leonard (2003)

10. A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches by Robert E. Johnson (2010)

Baptists books that marked 400th Anniversary

Exploring Baptists Origins (Regent’s Park College, 2010) – lectures from the Centre of History and Heritage, Regent’s Park College. Contributors include Paul Fiddes, Steve Holmes, Brian Haymes and Anthony Cross. Contents here

Beyond 400: Exploring Baptist Futures (Pickwick, 2011) – papers from conference at Vose Seminary, Western Australia. Contributors include Nigel Wright. Martin Sutherland and Neville Callum. Contents here

Distinctly Baptist: Proclaiming Identity in a New Generation (Judson Press, 2011) – sermons from George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor. Contributors include Roger Olson, Brian Brewer and Foreword by David Bebbington. Contents here.

On another note there is a new revised edition of William Lumpkin’s Baptist Confessions of Faith (Judson, 2011). Contents here.

Baptists and the World: Renewing the Vision edited by John H. Y. Briggs and Anthony R. Cross (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Vol 8; Regent’s Park College, 2011)

Papers from the Baptist Historical Society Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008

1. Conscience and Dissent in a Believers’ Church: Renewing Baptist Global Identity – Bill J. Leonard

2. Renewing the Vision: History for the Health of the Church – Catriona Gorton

3. Baptists and Fellowship: Praxis in Search of Theology – Mark Hopkins

4. A Particular View of the World: Evangelism in the Thought of Benjamin KEach (1640-1704) – Jonathan W. Arnold

5. ‘Rousing the Attention of Christians’: Scottish Baptists and the Baptist Missionary Society prior to the Twentieth Century – Brian Talbot

6. What About the Widows? An Appeal to Nineteenth-Century Baptist Women – Karen Smith

7. ‘Working women make happy homes’: Marianne Faringham and the Role of Women in the Late Nineteenth Century

8. Modern Implications of John Clifford’s Theological Understanding of Socialism – Matthew Tennant

9. ‘Against the Tide’: Episodes Highlighting the Situation of Religious Freedom for Baptists in Central and Eastern Europe, 1908-2008 – Tony Peck

10. Re-Evaluating Baptist Mission in the Baltics – Toivo Pilli

11. Baptist-Anabaptist Identity Amongst European Baptists since the 1950s – Ian M. Randall

12. God’s ‘Moses’ for Pentecostalism: A Study of a Baptist Pastor, Joseph Smale (1867-1926) – Timothy B. Welch

13. The Era of British Pre-Eminence in the Baptist World Alliance – Richard V. Pierard

14. From Mission to Church: The Foundation and Expansion of The Evangelical Baptist Church in Angola – Jim Grenfell

15. On Baptist Identity in the Southern Hemisphere: Narrative Reflections on Similarity and Diversity within the Baptist Vision – Brian Harris

16. The 2008 New Baptist Covenant Celebration through Seminarians’ Eyes – William Loyd Allen and Bailey Edwards Nelson

The “Plainly Revealed” Word of God?: Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice edited by Helen Dare and Simon Woodman (Mercer, 2011)

Section 1: Baptist Biblical Engagement Reviewed

(Early) Baptist Identity and the Acts of the Apostles: Hermeneutical Insights from the Baptists’ Bible Project – Mikeal C. Parsons

A Sample of Baptist Contributions to Johannine Scholarship – R. Alan Culpepper

Prophecy, Corporate Personality, and Suffering: Some Themes and Methods in Baptist Old Testament Scholarship – Paul S. Fiddes

Response to Paul Fiddes – Rex Mason

Section 2: Baptist Biblical Encounters Analysed

Gathering Round the Word: Baptists, Scripture and Worship – Christopher J. Ellis

The Bible in the Flesh: Pragmatism and Community in Lewis Misselbrook’s Bible Study Notes – Simon Perry

Hermeneutics: The Interface between Critical Scholarship and the Faith of the Community – Rex Mason

Section 3: Baptist Biblical Hermeneutics Explored

Baptists and Biblical Interpretation: Reading the Bible with Christ – Ian Birch

Baptist Convictional Hermeneutics – Parush R. Parushev

The Word of His Grace: What’s So Distinctive About Scripture? – John E. Colwell

Section 4: Baptist Interpretative Difference Negotiated

The Dissenting Voice: Journeying Together toward a Baptist Hermeneutic – Simon Woodman

‘In the Fray’: Reading the Bible in Relationship – Helen Dare

Persuading Friends: Friendship and Testimony in Baptist Interpretative Communities – Sean Winter

Section 5: Baptist Hermeneutics in Wider Perspective

The Grammar of Baptist Assent – Brian Brock

In Appreciation of ‘Reluctant’ Prophets – William John Lyons

 

Baptist Quarterly, October 2011

Civil Liberties and Baptists: William Winterbotham of Plymouth in prison and thinking of Amercia – Emma MacLeod

British Baptist Crucicentrism since the late Eighteenth Century: Part 1 – David Bebbington

Caleb Evans’ Ministerial Formation at the Mile End Academy, 1752-58 – Roger Hayden

Seminary in Crisis: a Review Article – John H. Y. Briggs

British Baptist Historians 6: Brian Stanley

Lecturer in Church History, Trinity College, Bristol

Director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity, Cambridge

Professor of World Christianity, Edinburgh (2008-)

Major Publications

‘C. H. Spurgeon and the Baptist Missionary Society 1863-1866’, Baptist Quarterly 29.7 (July 1982): 319-28.

‘Winning the world: William Carey and the missionary movement’ in Heritage of Freedom (Lion Publishing, 1984): 77-83.
‘“The Miser of Headingley”: Robert Arthington and the Baptist Missionary Society, 1877-1900’, in W. J. Sheils and Diana Wood (eds), The Church and Wealth, Studies in Church History, 24 (Blackwell, 1987): 371-82.

‘“Nineteenth-century liberation theology”: nonconformist missionaries and imperialism’, Baptist Quarterly 22.1 (Jan. 1987): 5-18.

‘The history of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992’, Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, 4-5 (1988-9): 93-5.

The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Apollos, 1990).

The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992 (T. & T. Clark, 1992).

‘Planting self-governing churches: British Baptist ecclesiology in a missionary context’, Baptist Quarterly 34.8 (Oct. 1992): 378-89.

‘The origins and early work of the Baptist Missionary Society’, in R. L. Greenall (ed.) The Kettering Connection: Northamptonshire Baptists and Overseas Missions (University of Leicester Adult Education Department, 1993): 14-32.

‘British Evangelicals and overseas concerns, 1833-1970’ in J. R. Wolffe (ed.), Evangelical Faith and Public Zeal: Evangelicals and Society in Britain 1780-1980 (SPCK, 1995): 81-96.

‘A Cambridge passage through India: the making of T. R. Glover’s The Jesus of History’, Cambridge Review 119:2331 (Nov. 1998): 60-69.

‘The future in the past: eschatological vision in British and American Protestant missionary history’, Tyndale Bulletin 51:1 (May 2000): 101-20.

(ed.), Christian Missions and the Enlightenment (Eerdmans, 2001)

‘“The old religion and the new”: India and the making of T. R. Glover’s The Jesus of History’, in D. W. Bebbington (ed.), The Gospel in the World (Paternoster Press, 2002): 295-312
‘Edinburgh 1910 and the Oikumene’, in Anthony Cross (ed.), Ecumenism and History (Paternoster Press, 2002): 89-105.

(ed.), Missions, Nationalism and the End of Empire (Eerdmans, 2003)

(ed.) with  Sheridan Gilley, The Cambridge History of Christianity Vol 8: World Christianities, c. 1815 – c. 1914 (Cambridge, 2006)

‘Baptists, anti-slavery and the legacy of imperialism’, Baptist Quarterly 42 (Oct. 2007): 284-95.

The World Missionary Conference: Edinburgh 1910 (Eerdmans, 2009)

‘Missiology’ in David Fergusson et al (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology (Cambridge, 2011)