Distinctly Baptist

Author : Brian C. Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0817016988

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Distinctly Baptist by Brian C. Brewer Pdf

What makes the Baptist witness unique in the Christian tradition and in the world? When Baptists celebrated the 400th anniversary of their distinctive tradition in 2010, the faculty of the George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University delivered a unique chapel series to proclaim the Baptist identity. Beginning with those sermons and expanding upon them, this book offers this generation a relevant understanding of Baptist faith and identity, based on the proclamation of 14 classic and emerging distinctives¿from soul competency and the priesthood of believers, to local church autonomy and congregational polity, to religious liberty and separation of church and state. Also includes chapters on vocation and calling, Christian mission, and social justice! Intended first to encourage and equip Baptist preachers, Distinctly Baptist will also be a useful tool for Baptist identity studies in congregations and seminaries alike as we disciple new generations of Baptists in an increasingly post-denominational culture.

Author : Ronnie Prevost
Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Pub
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781573125024

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A Distinctively Baptist Church by Ronnie Prevost Pdf

So many Baptist today have forgotten what it means--beyond the mode of baptism--to be Baptist. They have forgotten their heritage. Countless Baptist forebears bought and wrote that heritage with their blood. It is not so much whether or not we remember and honor their names; what is important is whether we honor the legacy they left us. A Distinctively Baptist Church explains how historically Baptist beliefs can and should shape the way a church functions; the study questions and downloadable teaching guide offer churches a means to work through how their Baptist heritage will shape their life and witness.

Author : Anthony Clarke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725263512

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Forming Ministers or Training Leaders? by Anthony Clarke Pdf

Forming Ministers or Training Leaders is a unique book because it is based on a significant piece of empirical research. Anthony Clarke explores the way that the practice among theological colleges in the UK has been changing and develops the concept of the “pastoral imagination” to express what a theological college is aiming to do with its students. The book then offers an analysis of the “pastoral imagination” that is in fact at work in a selection of Baptist colleges and other theological institutions in the UK. Alongside this Clarke offers a coherent and robust theological account of the work of a theological college, through engaging with recent trinitarian theology, and argues that this is best understood as a process of formation which embraces other ideas of training and education.

Author : Ian M. Randall,Toivo Pilli,Anthony R. Cross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597528337

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Baptist Identities by Ian M. Randall,Toivo Pilli,Anthony R. Cross Pdf

The authors of the papers published here come from a dozen different countries and represent different expressions of Baptist life. The papers were delivered at the third International Conference on Baptist Studies, held at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague in July 2003, with the theme Baptist Identities. Those who gave presentations explored what factors have contributed to the nature of Baptist distinctiveness in different countries and at different times. In some cases the authors have written about their own contexts, using specific case studies that relate to particular periods, whereas in other cases they range more widely, covering several countries and/or longer periods of time. Topics examined in this volume include theological education, women in leadership, issues of ethnicity, Baptist identity and national consciousness, and creeds. The regional scope of the Baptist stories that are analyzed includes Africa, Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North America. At a time when there is considerable discussion throughout the world Baptist community about the nature of Baptist identity, this collection of papers by significant historians of Baptist life is an important contribution.

Author : Donald D. Schmeltekopf,Dianna M. Vitanza
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781932792270

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The Future of Baptist Higher Education by Donald D. Schmeltekopf,Dianna M. Vitanza Pdf

The Future of Baptist Higher Education investigates four key issues that inform Baptist efforts at higher education -- the denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the 1980s, the secularization of higher education in America, the dominance of the market-driven tendencies in American higher education today, and the meaning of Christian higher education, but more specifically, the meaning of Baptist higher education. This volume clearly illustrates that the meaning of Baptist and Christian higher education, as with the Christian life itself, is far more complex than any one imperial interpretation.

Author : H. Leon McBeth
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433671289

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A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage by H. Leon McBeth Pdf

Companion to the The Baptist Heritage, this book provides documents that will enrich the study of Baptist history.

Author : Gordon L. Heath,Dallas Friesen,Taylor Murray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532689314

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Baptists in Canada by Gordon L. Heath,Dallas Friesen,Taylor Murray Pdf

Baptists arrived in what would become Canada in the mid-eighteenth century, and from those early arrivals Baptists from a wide variety of backgrounds planted churches in every region of the vast nation. This book traces that history of Baptists in Canada, and provides historical antecedents and theological rationales for their church polity. Written in a generous spirit, it recognizes what Baptists share with other Christian communities and how they differ among themselves on some matters. It places Baptists in Canada in the larger historical and global context, and concludes with commentary on opportunities and challenges ahead.

Author : Adam Harwood,Kevin E Lawson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433646522

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Infants and Children in the Church by Adam Harwood,Kevin E Lawson Pdf

A congregation rejoices when a new child is added to its midst, yet the church often wrestles—in both theology and practice—with how to best receive and minister to infants and children entrusted to her care. Frequent questions arise like: Infants and Children in the Church addresses these critical and sensitive questions from a variety of rich traditions, including Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Baptist, so that Christians can make the most of every opportunity as they minister to children.

Author : R. Stanton Norman
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433674686

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The Baptist Way by R. Stanton Norman Pdf

The Baptist Way is an introduction to the principles that distinguish Baptists from other Christians. In some cases these ideas were once peculiarly Baptists, though they are now more widely held among other groups. For Stan Norman, healthy Baptist churches intentionally and diligently adhere to their Baptist distinctives.

Author : Julie Ingersoll
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 9781438140339

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Baptist, Methodist, and Evangelical Faiths in America by Julie Ingersoll Pdf

Examines the impact these faiths have had on the cultural, social, and political life of the United States.

Author : James A. Patterson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781433671661

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James Robinson Graves by James A. Patterson Pdf

The first new biography in more than eighty years of James Robinson Graves (1820-1893), a noted Southern Baptist who staked distinct denominational boundaries through what is known as Landmarkism.

Author : George A. Rawlyk
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773561878

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Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education by George A. Rawlyk Pdf

In his chapter on Acadia, Barry Moody argues that the university has been surprisingly open to a variety of theologies and pedagogical perspectives, tracing this to the liberality and breadth of vision of Nova Scotia Baptists. His study helps explain the remarkable strength of the Baptist tradition in late nineteenth-century Nova Scotia. J.R.C. Perkin's chapter on one of Acadia's distinguished presidents, Watson Kirkonnell, shows Kirkonnell as representative of this tradition and its strength. G.A. Rawlyk examines some of the underlying forces which significantly affected the development of McMaster University. He suggests that the cutting edge of McMaster's nineteenth century Evangelicalism may have been dulled by the enthusiastic manner in which "consumerism" and "modernity" were appropriated by the Baptist Convention leadership which controlled the university. In his discussion of Brandon College, Walter Ellis argues that Brandon failed as a Baptist institution of higher learning largely because it was out of touch with Western Canadian realities. If it had been a bible college rather than a Manitoba variant of McMaster, Brandon might still be in existence and Conventional Baptists might as a result be a far stronger force in the West. These essays on individual institutions highlight the pressure on denominational universities to emphasize not only Christian spirituality but secular scholarship. They will be of interest to all those who are concerned not only with the fate of Baptist institutions but the entire Christian church in Canada.

Author : Jason G. Duesing,Thomas White,Malcolm B. Yarnell
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433672989

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Upon This Rock by Jason G. Duesing,Thomas White,Malcolm B. Yarnell Pdf

A recent conference at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary featured speakers addressing topics set forth in the article on “The Church” in the Southern Baptist Convention’s Baptist Faith and Message statement. Upon This Rock gathers those presentations and answers such questions as: • What is the basis for our denominational distinctives? • Are they merely a collection of “faded traditions” or true doctrinal necessities rooted in the Bible alone? • Are they theologically rich cornerstones of faith that easily transcend time, culture, and preference? Contributors include Malcolm B Yarnell III (“Upon This Rock I Will Build My Church: A Theological Exposition of Matthew 16:13-20”), Paige Patterson (“Observing the Two Ordinances of Christ”), Thomas and Joy White (“Church Officers and Gender: Can Women Be Pastors? Or Deacons?”) and Bart Barber (“A Denomination of Churches: Biblical and Useful”) as well as Jason G. Duesing, David Allen, Emir F. Caner, James Leo Garrett, Jr., and Byron McWilliams.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009524

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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine repository and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen Dare,Simon Patrick Woodman
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780881462371

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The "plainly Revealed" Word of God? by Helen Dare,Simon Patrick Woodman Pdf

In January 2009, an international group of Baptist theologians met in Cardiff, UK, for a colloquium to explore the theory and practice of Baptist hermeneutics. Drawing primarily from the British Baptist community, the groupâ¿¿s work was enhanced by insights from participants from the USA and Eastern Europe. Participants brought a diversity of scholarly and pastoral interests to the colloquium, and through presentation and discussion explored together the nature of Baptist hermeneutics. The resulting volume addresses five core thematic areas. The first section surveys the way in which Baptists have engaged with the Bible both in their early history and more recent past. Section two analyses? some specific examples of Baptist hermeneutics in practice, while the third section turns attention to an exploration of theoretical approaches to the hermeneutical task in Baptist contexts. The problem of how to negotiate interpretative difference within Baptist reading communities is addressed in the fourth section. Finally, concluding responses to the project from two non-Baptist theologians challenge both contributors and readers to consider the wider implications of the volume for contemporary Baptist life.