New Baptist Journal from IBTS

In this last year, IBTS have launch a new journal called Baptistic Theologies. In the editorial for the first edition, Keith Jones says that ‘with this new journal we remove the focus upon a geographical area, Europe [so the JEBS], to an ecclesial grouping, baptistic … Baptistic Theologies is designed to strengthen the contribution of [...]

Download A Leading Question by Paul Fiddes

The BUGB website has now added Paul Fiddes’ A Leading Question to its list of free downloads. This is a 30-40 page book written by Paul in the mid-1980s on the subject of leadership in Baptist churches. Well worth a read. On a related note, I have written a short article in the latest Baptist [...]

A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought, Gen. Ed. J. H Y. Briggs (Vol 33, SBHT, Paternoster, 2009)

Eight years in the making. This is a fantastic and unique dictionary of Baptist life and theology written by Baptists. John Briggs is to be congratulated in pulling the project together … we looked forward to its companion biographical dictionary of Baptists in the future. John is stepping down soon from his position as Director [...]

Interviews with Anthony R. Cross, Chris Ellis and Simon Woodman

Three interviews with three British Baptist writers can be found here:
Simon Woodman
Chris Ellis
Anthony R. Cross (interview with Anthony includes an update on forthcoming books from the Studies in Baptist History and Thought series).

The W. T. Whitley Lectures (1949-1963)

1951  The Unity of the Bible by H. H. Rowley
1952 Rivals of the Christian Faith by L .H. Marshall
1954 Puritanism and Richard Baxter by Hugh Martin
1958 The Baptist Union. A Short History by Ernest A. Payne (Baptist Union,)
1959 Baptism in the New Testament by G. R. Beasley-Murray (Macmillian, 1962)
1960 The Ark of God by Douglas [...]

John H Y Briggs

John Briggs is Senior Research Fellow in Church History (2001-) and is also the Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage (2002-), Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He is also Research Professor in Baptist History at IBTS. John is a past chairman of the Baptist World Alliance’s Baptist History and Heritage Commission (1990-95). He [...]

British Baptists and Church History

William T. Whitely. Author of A History of the Baptists (1923)
Ernest A. Payne (1902-1980). Former tutor at Regent’s Park College (1940-1951), and General Secretary of the Baptist Union. Author of The Free Church Tradition in the Life of England (1944), The Anabaptists of the 16th Century and their Influence in the Modern World (1949), The [...]

Papers Published from the Consultations of Baptists Doing Theology in Context

From the 1999 consultation
Anthony Cross, ‘The Myth of English Baptist Anti-Sacramentalism’ published in Baptist Quarterly 38.8 (Oct 2000) and Recycling the Past or Researching History (Patern0ster, 2005)
Malcolm Drummond, ‘Eclisping the First Born: A Theological Reading of the story of Ishamel’ in Theology in Context, (ed.) S. Holmes (Whitely, 2000)
Jenny Few, ‘Hats and Wi(w)gs: Theological Reflections [...]

A Call to Mind, Bound to Love and other studies

A Call to Mind. Baptist Essays Towards a Theology of Commitment – Keith Clements, Paul Fiddes, Roger Hayden, Brian Haymes, Richard Kidd (1981)
Bound to Love. The Covenant Basis of Baptist Life and Mission – Keith Clements, Paul Fiddes, Roger Hayden, Brian Haymes, Richard Kidd (1985)
1. Covenant – Old and New – Paul S. Fiddes
2. Baptists, [...]