Baptist Ways : A History

This exhaustive resource traces significant aspects of Baptist history from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.

Bill J. Leonard is dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University Divinity School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Foreword

xi

Edwin S. Gaustad

Preface

xiii

Baptist Ways: Defining a People

1

(17)

Shaping Baptist Distinctives

Theories of Baptist Origins

An Evolving History

Baptist Beginnings: The Historical Context

18

(26)

The Reformation Churches

John Smyth and Baptist Beginnings

Thomas Helwys and the General Baptists

Baptist Identity: Six Principle Baptists

Particular Baptists: Beginnings

The Fifth Monarchy and Persecution

Seventh Day Baptists

Toleration Secured

Baptists in Ireland

Baptists in Scotland

Baptists in Wales

Baptist Identity: The Shape of Things

English Baptists: The Seventeenth Century

44

(26)

Baptists and Church Covenants

A Believers' Church

Associational Relationships

The Ordination of Ministers

Messengers and Deaconesses

Baptist Churches and Discipline

Baptist Worship

Baptist Poets

Concern for the Poor

The Instruction of Children

Baptist Beliefs: Seventeenth-Century Confessions of Faith

Educational Institutions

Baptist Identity Takes Shape

Baptists in the United States: Beginnings

70

(20)

The Puritan Ethos in New England

Baptists in Colonial Culture

Roger Williams: A Restless Founder

John Clarke and Newport

Baptists in New England

Challenging the Establishment: The Half-Way Covenant

Baptist Petitions

Persecution Continues

Baptists in Maine

Internal Controversies

Baptists and the New World

English Baptists: The Eighteenth Century

90

(22)

Baptist Associations

Eighteenth-Century Baptist Church Life

Christo-logical Controversies

Dan Taylor and the New Connection Baptists

Educational Efforts

Calvinism: Debates and Divisions

The Evangelical Calvinists

William Carey and the Mission Movement

Baptists and the British Empire

English Baptists: Identity and Expansion

Baptists in the United States: The Eighteenth Century

112

(27)

Colonial Baptists

Baptists in the Middle Colonies

Baptists in the South

Communities and Congregations

Religious Awakening

Separate Baptist Congregations

Separates in New England

Baptists in New England

Life in the Churches

Music and Hymnody

Baptist Subgroups

Founding a Baptist College

Religious Liberty: Virginia

Baptists and the American Revolution

Missionary Endeavors

Century's End: Theological Controversies

Baptists at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Baptists in Britain: The Nineteenth Century

139

(19)

The Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland

British Baptist Societies

Communion Controversies ... Again

The Nature of the Ordinances

The Nature of the Church

Baptists and Peace Societies

Educational Institutions

Baptist Church Life

Missionary Activities

Back in Britain: Divisions Continue

Baptists in Scotland

British Baptists: Solid Denominationalism

Baptists in the United States: 1800--1845

158

(39)

Baptists on the Frontier

Frontier Churches

Baptist Subdenominations: Regulars and Separates

Baptist Missions in America

Regional Missionary Societies

A National Mission Society

The Society in Baptist Organizational Life

Francis Wayland: The Dilemma of Denominationalism

Baptist State Conventions

Christian Education

Missionary Tales: Developing a Mythology

Home Mission Missionary Work: The Native Americans

Nineteenth-Century Baptist Controversies

The Southern Baptist Convention

A Response to Controversy: Baptist Confessions of Faith

American Baptists at Midcentury

Baptists in the United States: 1845--1900

197

(30)

Baptists and the Civil War

The American Baptist Missionary Union

Women's Missionary Societies

Missionary Appointments

Baptists North and South: Divisions Continue

Southern Baptists Deal with Defeat

Appalachian Baptist Communions

Swedish Baptists in the United States

Norwegian and Danish Baptists in the United States

Seventh Day Baptists: A General Conference Organized

Benoni Stinson and the General Baptists

Italian Baptists

William Miller and the Millerite Movement

Northern Baptist Organizations

Southern Baptist Organizations

Church Order: Baptist Manuals

Baptist Revivals

Baptists and the Social Gospel

Baptists and Racial Issues

Baptists and Immigration

Baptists and Education

Baptists and the Temperance Movement

Baptist Women

Baptists in the Nineteenth Century

Baptists in the Americas and the Caribbean

227

(36)

Baptists in Canada

Baptists in Jamaica and throughout the West Indies

Baptists and Other Caribbean Missions

Baptists in Mexico

Hispanic Baptists in the United States

Baptists in Nicaragua

Baptists in South America

Baptists in the Americas

African American Baptists

263

(23)

Up from Slavery

Early African American Churches

Northern Churches

Theological Issues

The Fortress Monroe Conference and African American Institutions

Educational Institutions

African American Baptist Conventions

African American Baptist Women

African American Baptists and the Civil Rights Movement

African American Baptists: Facing the Future

Baptists in Greater Britain

286

(20)

Baptists in Ireland

Baptists in Scotland

Baptists in Wales

Baptists in Australia

Baptists in New Zealand

Baptists and British Connectionalism

Baptists in Europe

306

(31)

Baptists in Germany

Baptists in Denmark

Baptists in Sweden

Baptists in Finland

Baptists in the Netherlands

Baptists in Norway

Baptists in Italy

Baptists in France

Baptists in Spain

Baptists in Poland

Baptists in Romania

Baptists in Bulgaria

Baptists in Russia

Baptists in the Ukraine

Baptists in Estonia

Baptists in Georgia

Baptists in Europe: A Tenacious Minority

Baptists in Africa and Asia

337

(29)

Baptists in Africa

Baptists in Asia

Baptists in Africa and Asia: Facing the Future

Baptists in the British Isles and Europe: The Twentieth Century

366

(24)

Baptists in the United Kingdom and Ireland

International Connectionalism among Baptists

Baptists in Europe: The Later Twentieth Century

The Twentieth Century: Working Together

Baptists in the United States: The Twentieth Century

390

(32)

The Northern Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist Convention

Comity Agreements

Evangelistic Efforts

Laymen's Movements

The First World War

Pacifism and the Second World War

Baptists and Fundamentalism: The Early Years of Conflict

Independent Baptists

The Conservative Baptist Association of America

Ethnic/Immigrant Baptist Communions

Ecumenical Relationships

The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs

The American Baptist Churches USA

Southern Baptists

Public Morality

Civil Rights

Southern Baptist Controversies

Other Baptist Controversies

Baptists in the United States: A New Century

Epilogue

422

(5)

Bibliography

427

(18)

Index

445

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