A Distinctive People edited by Brian Talbot (SBHT; Paternoster, 2014)

Brian Talbot (ed.), A Distinctive People: A Thematic Study of Aspects of the Witness of Baptists in Scotland in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Baptist History and Thought; Paternoster, 2014)

The Distinctive Contribution to Scottish Baptist Life by key leaders of the Baptist Union – Edward Burrows

Baptist Laymen in the life of the denomination – Derek Murray

The place of women in the Scottish Baptist Life – Christine Lumsden

Scottish Baptists and their Relationships with other Baptist Churches, 1900-1945 – Brian Talbot

Scottish Baptist Ecumenical Relations in the Twentieth Century – Watson Moyes

Theological Developments among Twentieth Century Scottish Baptists – Kenneth Roxburgh

Experiences of the Holy Spirit amongst Scottish Baptists in the Twentieth Century – Alasdair Black

Changing Attitudes to War in the Twentieth Century – Neil Allison

Scottish Baptist Home Mission work in Twentieth Century Scotland – Brian Talbot

Scottish Baptists and Social Action – Derek Murray

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‘To Such as These’: The Child in Baptist Thought (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies Vol 4; Regent’s Park College, 2012)

Foreword – Robert Ellis

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Use of the Bible

Chapter 3: Who is the Child?

Chapter 4: Theologies of Sin and Salvation

Chapter 5: Ecclesiological Conundrums

Chapter 6: Conclusion: A Theology of the Child and Infant Presentation

Chapter 7: Postscript

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 – Linda Hopkins

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

Recent North American Baptist Doctoral Dissertations

Steven Harmon is posting some abstracts of recent doctoral dissertations completed in the US.

So far:

Scott Bullard on eucharist, unity and Baptists

Jeffrey Cary on Jenson, Williams, McClendon and free church ecclesiology

Aaron James on language, eucharist identity and baptist vision

Brian Haymes honoured with festschrift

The Baptist theologian Brian Haymes was given a festschrift yesterday in recognition of his contribution to Baptist life and theology. The book called Questions of Identity – a signal back to small earlier work – is edited by Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne, two colleagues who together with Brian wrote On Being the Church (Paternoster, 2009). The book will be available here soon and I’m sure will be available at the Baptist Assembly. The contents of the festschrift are:

‘A Preacher of Integrity’: Brian Haymes—A Brief Profile………………………….xi

Chapter 1
Turn or Burn!: A Nonviolent Reading of Fire and Burning in the Book
of Revelation
Simon Woodman………………………………………………………………………………………..1

Chapter 2
Further Reflections on a Sacramental Understanding of Preaching
Michael J. Quicke……………………………………………………………………………………..18

Chapter 3
‘Ambassadors for Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5.20): Ministry in the New
Creation
Sean F. Winter………………………………………………………………………………………….34

Chapter 4
Re-Envisioning the Wall of Separation, or One and a Half Cheers for
Secularization: Toward and Ecclesial Identity after Christendom
Barry Harvey…………………………………………………………………………………………..50

Chapter 5
‘Bearer of our Sins’: Atonement Theology after Steve Chalke
Nigel G. Wright………………………………………………………………………………………..67

Chapter 6
‘Through a glass darkly’: The Further Light Clause in Baptist Thought
Anthony R. Cross……………………………………………………………………………………..92

Chapter 7
Dual Citizenship in Athens and Jerusalem: The Place of the Christian
Scholar in the Life of the Church
Paul S. Fiddes…………………………………………………………………………………………119

Chapter 8
A Matter of Conscience: A Quest for Otherness
John E. Colwell………………………………………………………………………………………141

Chapter 9
The Prophet Oded as an Early Good Samaritan
Robert Parkinson……………………………………………………………………………………155

Chapter 10
Knowing Together the Mind of Christ: Congregational Government and
the Church Meeting
Stephen R. Holmes………………………………………………………………………………….172
Chapter 11
Prophets and Pietists: Differing Faces of Baptist Identity
Faith Bowers…………………………………………………………………………………………..189

Chapter 12
Revisioning Identity: Mennonite Reflections on Narrative
Alan Kreider…………………………………………………………………………………………..207

Chapter 13
Story-telling, Sacraments, and Sexuality
Ruth Gouldbourne………………………………………………………………………………….239

Chapter 14
Afterword
Christopher Rowland………………………………………………………………………………253

Baptist Quarterly, October 2010

‘”The Glorious Lover”” Baptist literature of the 1680s and the Bride of Christ’ – Elizabeth Clarke

‘For God and the People: Baptist Deaconesses 1901-1905’ – Faith Bowers

‘The Baptist World Congress of 1905 and the Emergence of Black American Baptists on the International Scene’ – Richard V. Pierard

From Woolloomooloo to “Eternity”: A history of Australian Baptists by Ken R. Manley (SBHT 16, Paternoster, 2006)

From Woolloomooloo to “Eternity”: A history of Australian Baptists by Ken R. Manley (SBHT 16, 2 Vols, Paternoster, 2006)

Volume 1: Growing an Australian Church (1831-1914)

1 From Woolloomooloo to “Eternity”: Baptists in Australia

2 “Unaided and Alone”: Baptists and the First Settlements (1831-51)

3 Towards “an assured position’ (1851-81)

4 Learning to be an Austalian Church (1881-1914)

5 Being an Australian Baptist: (1) Identity, Fellowship and Worship

6 Being an Australian Baptist: (2) Women, Leaders and Youth

7 Australian Baptists and Australian Society

Vol 2: A National  Church in a Global Community (1914-2005)

8 “Fighting the Good Fight” (1914-1939)

9 “Australia looks to America” (1939-1966)

10 Towards other Peoples: Australian Baptists and Cross-Cultural Mission

11 Reinventing Australian Baptist Idenitity (1967-2005): (1) Mission and Renewal

12  Reinventing Australian Baptist Idenitity (1967-2005): (2) Ministry and Leadership

13 Beyond “Eternity”: Challenges and Opportunities

Paul Goodliff, Ministry, Sacrament and Representation

Paul Goodliff, Ministry, Sacrament and Representation: Ministry and Ordination in Contemporary Baptist Theology, and the Rise of Sacramentalism (Oxford: Regent’s Park College, 2010), £20.

This is a revised version of my dad’s doctoral thesis, which was based on survey of Baptist ministers and interviews with recent Baptist College principals. It is volume 2 in the new Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Series. It will be available at the Baptist Assembly this weekend and shortly after here.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Methodological Considerations

3. A Narrative Account of the Formal Documents

4. The Documents: A Systematic Analysis

5. Analysis of the Survey Data

6. Analysis of the Interview Data

7. Five Factors Shaping Changing Belief

8. The Sacramental Turn

9. Postscript: Creation, Eschaton, and the Formation and Practice of Ministry

Dance or Die: The Shaping of Estonian Baptist Identity under Communism by Toivo Pilli (Vol 37, SBHT, Paternoster, 2008)

Foreword – Ian M. Randall

Chapter 1: introduction

PART ONE: External Pressures on Identity
Chapter 2: Adjusting to New Patterns: 1945-1959

Chapter 3: From a Thunderstorm to Still Life: 1959-1972

Chapter 4: Light at the end of the Tunnel: 1972-1985

Chapter 5: Opening Doors: 1985-1991

PART TWO: Internal Dynamics of Identity
Chapter 6: Ecclesiological Perspectives: Unity out of Diversity

Chapter 7: Word and Spirit: A Creative Tension

Chapter 8: A Common Goal: Evangelism and Mission

Chapter 9: Bearing Fruit: Challenges in Ethics

Chapter 10: Conclusion

The European Baptist Federation: A Case Study in European Interdependency 1950-2006 by Keith G. Jones (Vol 43, SBHT, Paternoster, 2009)

Foreword – Ian M. Randall

Chapter 1: Baptists and Interdependency

Chapter 2: ‘Beyond the Local’: The Ecclesiological Basis of the European Baptist Federation

Chapter 3: The Ecumenical Dimension

Chapter 4: The International Baptist Theological Seminary

Chapter 5: A Focus of Unity – General Secretaries

Chapter 6: Partnership in Mission: Inter-Continental Mission Work from the USA

Chapter 7: Mission in the World

Chapter 8: The Ecclesial Reality of European Baptists

Appendix: EBF Presidents 1950-2009