Pub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1947603
B. Stanley
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0005576x.2021.1904724
P. Fiddes
ABSTRACT This article surveys the history of the Angus Library and Archives at Regent's Park College, Oxford, from its foundation to the present day, setting it within four historical periods. The article includes the history of notable accessions of books and manuscripts to the Angus, its character, its close association with the Baptist Historical Society, and its shaping over the years by a number of key persons. It traces a development from the personal collection of the first Principal to its present status as the central archive for Baptist studies in the UK, through merger with the library of the Baptist Union of Great Britain – including the former library of the Baptist Historical Society – and the archives of the Baptist Missionary Society. Its function as a place for continuous deposit of Baptist Union documents, its holdings that relate to Baptists worldwide, and its recent activity in educational ‘outreach’ are also related.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1917875
S. Oxley
ABSTRACT English Baptists regarded the Sunday School as an agency for producing a flow of committed members into the local church through the instruction of children. The twentieth century began with well-established patterns of instruction. This article examines the contribution of Baptists, throughout the twentieth century, to new thinking about educational methods, continuing faith development beyond childhood and the congregation as a learning community. Some changes were adopted such as organising children in age groups and moving Sunday School to the morning. However other proposals were not and the focus on the instruction given rather than the learning encouraged remained influential.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-06DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1927392
D. Cornick
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1927393
Karen E. Smith
Any emphasis on the hymns of a Baptist woman, and a renewed emphasis on the use of hymns to teach and inspire, is to be welcomed. However, this particular volume, the fifteenth monograph in Baptist History to be published by Pickwick Publications, proved to be disappointing. Unfortunately, this volume does not seek to provide a theological analysis of Anne Steele’s hymns, but examines some of the verses written by Steele that John Rippon selected and edited before he included them in his Selection of Hymns. In effect, Carmichael is reflecting on Rippon’s theology. Hence, he naturally uses the headings in Rippon’s collection as the theological themes to be explored. Unfortunately, the discussion of these themes seems narrowly prescribed and lacks an understanding of Baptist life and relationships in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. Curiously, while noting that there were Particular Baptists who favoured open communion and open membership (such as Daniel Turner of Abingdon and the Rylands of Northampton), Carmichael appears to dismiss them as minor figures among Calvinistic Baptists! Moreover, he suggests that John Collet Ryland’s views may have been shaped by his friendship with the Anglican, James Hervey. However, no mention is made of Anne Steele in relation to Hervey, or to the fact that she wrote at least two poems reflecting on Hervey’s work. This omission may be an indication of the fact that, as Carmichael admits, he has not consulted primary sources relating to Steele and her family, but has simply relied on secondary sources. It may also be an indication of an inadequate appreciation of other wider connections within the eighteenth-century British context. Since the author seems to be seeking to portray, as he put it, ‘what, or who, might be called Rippon’s Steele’ (p.201), rather than analysing the hymns of Steele herself, what is provided in this book is essentially a discussion of some of the hymns of a female hymn writer that have been edited by a man and included in his collection, selected according to his own criteria. These edited hymns may, therefore, offer some limited insight into the theology of certain Particular Baptists of the period but, unfortunately, this work does not offer us any new insight into the life and faith of this Baptist woman. As a result, there is inevitably a limited appreciation of Steele’s contribution as one who proclaimed her faith not through theological discourse or preaching, but through her verse and hymnody.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1927391
B. Talbot
This book sought to answer these questions: ‘ What is conversion, and under what cir-cumstances do people become Christians? ’ The introductory chapter ‘ An Anatomy of Conversion ’ was an analysis of the conversion narrative of the author ’ s father, Gordon Kling. The book was divided into seven sections. The fi rst: ‘ The Roman World ’ covers in three chapters the story of the Christian Church until the year 500 AD. The second: ‘ Medieval Europe ’ covers in four chapters a time span of a thousand years from 500 – 1500. The third: ‘ Early Modern Europe ’ has chapters on Protestant and Continental Refor-mers (1517 1600), European Catholicism (1500 – 1700), English Protestantism (1520 1700), and The Rise of Evangelicalism (1675 – 1750). The fourth: ‘ The Americas ’ includes Catholics in Colonial America (1500 – 1700), Puritans and the Great Awakening in America (1630 – 1790), American Evangelicalism in Black and White (1750 – Present), and Protestants and Pentecostals in Latin America (1900 – Present). The fi fth: ‘ China ’ has three chapters. The fi rst covers The Church of the East and the First Catholic Missions (635 – 1840), then Protestant Entrance and Christian Expansion (1840 – 1950), followed by Independent Protestant Movements (1930 – Present). The sixth: ‘ India ’ has two chapters divided into Upper-Caste Conversions (1500 – 1900) and Lower-Caste Conversions (1530 – Present). The fi nal section: ‘ Africa ’ contains three chapters: The Age of the Prophets (1900 – 1930), The East Africa Revival (1930 2000), together with Catholic East and Pen-tecostal West (1800 – Present), prior to a concluding chapter on key themes in the history of Christian conversion.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-15DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1917874
Derick Marlow
ABSTRACT The Baptist Missionary Society’s participation in home mission efforts from 1792 to 1810 sheds light on an often overlooked segment of the BMS’s history. In 1795, the BMS began to conduct home mission with the desire to inspire additional domestic efforts. To achieve this goal, the BMS sponsored village preaching in the UK through both direct and indirect methods. By 1810, the BMS withdrew its direct support of home mission in order to focus on its primary goal of carrying the gospel abroad, while the growing success of organisations like the The Baptist Society in London for the Encouragement and Support of Itinerant Preaching and the improving Particular Baptist condition may have contributed to this decision. Consequently, the BMS’s early role in home mission deserves a more prominent place in its history, especially given the renewed attention the BMS has given to domestic mission in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1916151
John A. G. Briggs
Peter Stanford has significance for British Baptist history as Birmingham’s first black minister, serving as pastor of Hope Street [Highgate] Baptist Church from 1889 to 1895. The book, a combinati...
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Pub Date : 2021-04-22DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1904725
P. Fiddes
ABSTRACT This article argues that both the German Requiem of Brahms, and the life and convictions of Baptists expressed a mood of the times in the 1860s and 1870s, and that they contributed to it in complementary ways. In 1869 the Baptist church in Vienna was formally founded, and Brahms' German Requiem was performed in full for the first time. The backgrounds in Hamburg of the two key persons involved, the Baptist missionary pioneer Johann Gerhard Oncken and the composer Johannes Brahms respectively, show some interesting affinities. More echoes can be detected between the approach of both Baptists and Brahms in this period with regard to the use of scripture, and to the future hope of life beyond death. While the differences between them are notable, it is urged that in our own time we might do well to learn from the wide scope of hope Brahms expresses in his Requiem.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-07DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1911037
Ian Birch
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