Challenging to Change: Dialogues with a Radical Baptist Theologian: Essays Presented to Dr Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday, edited by Pieter J. Lalleman (Spurgeon’s, 2009)

Introduction – David Coffey
‘Baptists “Relating and Resourcing” in difficult times: A historical perspective’ – Raymond Brown
‘New birth from Water and Spirit’ – Alastair Campbell
‘The Coherence of freedom: Can Church or State ever be Truly Free?’ – John Colwell
‘Being a minister: spirituality and the pastor’ – Chris Ellis
‘”The leadership of some …”: Baptist ministers as leaders?’ [...]

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 [...]

Edification and Beauty by James M. Renihan (SBHT 17, Paternoster, 2008)

Edification and Beauty: The Practical Ecclesiology of the English Particular Baptists, 1675-1705
Introduction
Chapter 1: ‘Christ … ever shall have a kingdome in this world’: The Emergence and Development of the Particular Baptist Churches
Chapter 2: ‘Those thus called, he commandeth to walk together in particular societies, or churches’: The Nature of the Church
Chapter 3: ‘To each of [...]

The Making of a Modern Denomination by Peter Shepherd (SBHT Vol 4, Paternoster, 2001)

The Making of a Modern Denomination: John Howard Shakespeare and the English Baptists 1898-1924
1 Background
2 The Strengthening of the Union
3 The Sustenance of the Ministry
4 The Search for Unity
5 Final Years at the Baptist Union
6 Shakespeare’s Legacy

Bible, history and ministry: essays for L.G. Champion on his ninetieth birthday. Edited by Roger Hayden and Brian Haymes (Bristol Baptist College, 1997)

‘The stillness and the dancing: an appreciation of Leonard G. Champion’ – Roger Hayden
‘Source, guide and goal! the persuasive function of a Pauline doxology (Romans 11.33-36)’ – Sean Winter
“Wooing an crocodile” social science investigation and the New Testament’ – Michael Jackson
‘Wisdom and the dove: epiphanies of the Spirit in the gospel of Mark’ – Julie [...]

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 [...]

Baptists Together. Papers Published in Memory of W. M. S. West

Baptist Historical Society, 2000.
prepared for publication by J. H. Y. Briggs and Faith Bowers
Introduction – John Briggs and Faith Bowers
The Rev Dr Morris West: Autobiographical Material – Morris West
Memories of Dr West – Robert Ellis, Harry Mowvley
The Larger Context: Morris West, Servant of World Ecumenism – Keith Clements
A Few Words About Christian Ministry – Morris [...]

The Whitley Lectures (1997-)

1997 Nigel Wright Power and Discipleship: Towards a Baptist Theology of the State

1998 Ruth Gouldbourne Reinventing the Wheel: Women and Ministry in English Baptist Life
1999 Keith Jones A Shared Meal and a Common Table: Some Reflections on the Lord’s Supper and Baptists

2000 Anne Dunkley Seen and Heard: Reflections on Children and Baptist tradition

2001 Steve Finamore [...]

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 [...]

Baptist Sacramentalism edited by Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson (Vol 5, SBHT, Paternoster, 2003)

Foreword – J. I. Packer
Introduction – Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson
The Physical Side of Being Spiritual: God’s Sacramental Presence – Clark H. Pinnock
The Sacramentality of the Church: An Evangelical Baptist Perspective – Timothy George
Sacraments and Religious Liberty: From Critical Practice to Rejected Infringement – Philip E. Thompson
C. H. Spurgeon on the Sacraments – [...]