Download Doctrine and Worship Committee Reports

On the BUGB website it is now possible to download three of the key reports from the 1990s by the Doctrine and Worship Committee, chaired at the time by Paul Fiddes.
The Nature of Assembly and the Council of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (1994)
Forms of Ministry among Baptists: Towards an Understanding of Spiritual Leadership [...]

Lectures on Exploring Baptist Origins (advance warning)

The Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture lectures in Michaelmas Term 2009 will be on Exploring Baptist Origins. 5pm at Regent’s Park College.
20 October: Baptists and Anabaptists Reassessed – Keith Jones
27 October: Early Baptist Views on Baptism – Anthony Cross
3 November: William Kiffin and Particular Baptist Origins – Larry Kreitzer
10 November: The Dangers of Just [...]

On Being the Church: Revisioning Baptist Identity by Brian Haymes, Ruth Gouldbourne, Anthony Cross (SBHT 21, Paternoster, 2008)

This book re-examines Baptist theology and practice in the light of contemporary biblical, theological, ecumenical and missiological perspectives. It is not a study in denominationalism, but rather attempts to revision historical insights from the believer’s church tradition, essentially within a trinitarian emphasis. It is a re-expression of that tradition, seeking to re-appropriate forgotten emphases, bringing [...]

Baptist Sacramentalism 2 edited by Anthony Cross and Philip Thompson (SBHT Vol 25, Paternoster, 2008)

Foreword – Francis Schussler Fiorenza
Introduction: Practicing Sacramentality in Baptist Modality – Philip Thompson
Embodied Grace: Exploring the Sacraments and Sacramentality – Christopher J. Ellis
‘We have an altar’: a Baptist View of  Sacrament and Sacrifice in Hebrews – J. Ramsey Michaels
The Sacrament of Fearful Intimacy – Jim Purves
The Church as Sacrament: A Mediating Presence – John E. [...]

Dimensions of Baptism: Biblical and Theological Studies edited by Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross (2002)

Introduction: Baptism – An Ongoing Debate – Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross
The Meaning of the Verb ‘Baptize’ – Howard Marshall
John the Baptist: His Immersion and Death – Bruce Chilton
The Baptism of John in a Typological Context – Craig A. Evans
‘She and her household were baptized’ (Acts 16.15): Household Baptism in the Acts of [...]

A Baptist View (ed. Alec Gilmore, Baptist Union)

Ministry: A Baptist View – John F. V. Nicholson (1976)
The Church: A Baptist View – Gordon W. Martin (1976)
Baptism: A Baptist View – John F. Matthews (1976)
Authority: A Baptist View – B. R. White (1976)
Freedom: A Baptist View – John H. Y. Briggs (1976)
Children in the Church: A Baptist View – David F. Tennant (1978)
Charismatic [...]

More Than A Symbol: The British Baptist Recovery of Baptismal Sacramentalism by Stanley K. Fowler (Vol. 2, SBHT, Paternoster, 2002)

Foreword – William H. Brackney
Introduction
1. The Historical Background: Baptist Views of Sacramentalism from 1600-1900
17th Century
Robert Garner, Henry Lawrence, Thomas Grantham, Benjamin Keach, William Mitchill
18th Century
John Gill, Abraham Booth, Anne Dutton, Andrew Fuller, John Ryland Jr.
19th Century
Robert Hall Jr., Alexander Carson, Charles Stovel, Baptist W. Noel, John Howard Hinton, C. H. Spurgeon, Richard Ingham
2. The Reformulation [...]

Baptism and the Baptists: Theology and Practice in Twentieth-Century Britain by Anthony R. Cross (Vol. 3, SBHT, Paternoster, 2000)

Foreword – George Beasley-Murray
Introduction
1. The Theology and Practice of Baptism among British Baptists in the Nineteenth Century
2. Common Ground
3. Ecumenical Developments 1900-1937
4. The Theology of Baptism
5. Ecumenical Developments 1938-1966
6. The Baptist Response
7. The Consolidation of Baptist Sacramentalism
8. Ecumenical Developments 1967-1999
9. New Perspectives and Developments in the Theology of Baptism
10. The Practice of Baptism 1900-1999

Christian Baptism edited by A. Gilmore (Lutterworth Press, 1959)

Baptism in Recent Discussion – Rev. E. A. Payne
Scripture, Tradition, and Baptism – Rev. S. F. Winward
Jewish Antecedents – Rev. A. Gilmore
Baptism in the New Testament – Rev. R. E. O White, Rev S. I. Buse, Rev. G. R. Beasley-Murray, Rev. D. R. Griffiths
Baptism in the Early Christian Centuries – Rev. A. W. Argyle
The Anabaptists [...]

Reflections on the Water: Understanding God and the World through the Baptism of Believers edited by Paul S. Fiddes (Smyth & Helwys, 1996)

Introduction: Reflections on the Water
Believers Baptized: An Anthology – Roger Hayden
Baptism and the Sacramental Freedom of God – Christopher Ellis
Baptism and Creation – Paul S. Fiddes
Baptism as a Political Act -Brian Haymes
Baptism and the Identity of Christian Communities – Richard Kidd
Baptized – ‘in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the [...]