Pub Date : 2021-12-04DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.2004789
John E. Colwell
ABSTRACT Beginning with a series of personal anecdotes the essay offers a broad outline of English Baptist understandings and practices of Holy Communion, tracing the move from the language of sacrament and a confidence in Christ’s real presence to a more memorialist notion of the rite. This historical development forms the background and contrast to the author’s reflection on personal experience of the rite as celebrated in English Baptist churches and the development of the author’s own sacramental c.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.2001963
W. Brackney
ABSTRACT The terminology ‘Particular Baptist’ has been employed by early and contemporary writers to denominate English Calvinistic Baptists since Thomas Crosby's published history in 1738–40. However, upon closer scrutiny of original manuscripts, the terminology ‘Particular Baptists’ did not come into usage until the 1680s. Instead of Particular Baptists being defined by a limited view of Christ's atonement (i.e. for a particular group), the earliest Calvinistic Baptists created a theological identity built upon their doctrine of the church, as articulated in the London Confession of 1644. This essay surveys key writers and documents to demonstrate a two-stage theological development that focussed initially upon particular congregations, and later upon classic Calvinistic principles such as election, predestination, and perseverance. Gradually the ‘Particular Baptist’ nomenclature came into use to denote the English Calvinistic Baptists in contrast to general atonement or Arminian Baptists. In the period 1640–1680, the preferred terminology is simply Calvinistic Baptists.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1080/0005576x.2021.1998971
Brian G. Talbot
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Pub Date : 2021-10-31DOI: 10.1080/0005576x.2021.1985887
Adrian Gray
ABSTRACT The issue of the retention of religious belief within families has recently begun to attract researchers [Christian Smith and David Sikkink, “Social Predictors of Retention in and Switching from the Religious Faith of Family of Origin: Another Look Using Religious Tradition Self-Identification,” Review of Religious Research 45, no. 2 (2003): 188–206. Accessed October 23, 2020. doi:10.2307/3512582. This includes a helpful summary of recent research]. This paper examines the family history of a prominent East Midlands Baptist family of the early 1800s to identify how faith changed over generations. The Felkin family moved from poor stocking weavers to regionally important Baptist leaders and wealthy industrialists within two generations; thereafter they gained access to higher education and social circles, with a decline in Baptist identity to the extent that some embraced other religions.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-31DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1994111
I. Randall
on and developing the preceding contributions. Haymes offers a touchingly personal account of the potential of the communion of saints to overcome our tendency to dichotomise the worlds of body and soul, materiality and the spiritual. Kidd explores the nature of things hidden from our sight, asking how our imagination might explore God’s seeming absence from our human finitude and our limited perception of our neighbours. The final word is taken up by Fiddes who integrates the themes of companionship and prayer to show how, as the communion of saints shaped by an understanding of covenant, we participate in the lives of one another and of God. It is testament to the vision shared between the authors that while each contribution retains much by way of individual character, so too does the book excel as a single piece. Communion, Covenant and Creativity, has been consciously written to continue a conversation the authors first began in Baptists and The Communion of Saints: A Theology of Covenanted Disciples (2014). In this new volume, each author independently asserts (perhaps too often) that the current work does not require familiarity with their earlier study and while that may be true, those fluent in their former arguments will certainly enter this conversation more attuned to the authors’ shared theological intentions. Not least of those ambitions is a desire to take the professed beliefs of the global Church most seriously. Unthinking cerebral affirmations of the Creed will not suffice. Neither will populist imaginings of the sanctorum communio as disembodied souls inhabiting an ethereal afterlife. Instead, the authors offer a compellingly rich affirmation of historical theology; resurrected bodies alive in reciprocating fellowship with those who yet remain more earthbound. In these evocative conversations, a theology of the communion of saints emerges that is not simply something to be confessed in the mind of the individual disciple, it becomes something to be lived and to be known in physical bodies and communities of faith. As such Fiddes, Haynes and Kidd have written so much more than a theological book by Baptists, or even a theological book for Baptists, this is surely an illuminating weaving of theology and the arts, a gift to anyone who hopes to be counted in the company of the saints.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1080/0005576x.2021.1985701
R. Pope
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2021.1947651
Stephen R. Holmes
ABSTRACT Unsurprisingly given his schooling in Elizabethan Puritanism, John Smyth’s early works show that he held to standard Calvinistic positions on election, reprobation, and original sin. By 1610 he had clearly repudiated these positions. This essay explores when and why he changed his mind. Textual evidence shows that he was still holding Calvinistic convictions when he baptised himself and the others, and then formed the first Baptist church in (probably) 1609. The reason for his repudiation of Calvinism some months after that is less certain, but I argue that it was probably down to an engagement with the Waterlander Mennonites that came after the baptisms. I therefore argue that, contrary to common report, the first Baptist congregation was ‘Particular’, not ‘General’, although it quickly changed, and that the long-standing question of whether the Mennonites had a significant effect on early Baptist development can be answered in the affirmative.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0005576x.2021.1947650
A. L. Chilton
ABSTRACT ‘Practices’ as method have surged in popularity amongst theologians and ethicists. Despite the criticism raised by their ability to ‘go wrong,’ practices as method illuminates the intrinsic connection between local faith communities and doctrinal theology. This article explores practices understood in light of Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of learning a ‘second first language’ as a means of bridging inter and intra religious contextual divides. This article will examine Muriel Lester’s work in the East End, particularly her practices of worship, prayer, communal living, and voluntary poverty, as examples of learning a ‘second first language’ that enabled her to bridge the social divides between herself and the East Enders and the religious divides between herself and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0005576x.2021.1966220
Karen E. Smith, Simon P. Woodman
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