The Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-285563-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1411 g

The Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies presents various areas of Baptist life and thought, both historically and in the present, while offering reflections on the nature of Baptist Studies as an academic discipline. The volume is organized in four parts. The first traces the development of Baptist churches in the centuries since the first Baptist church in 1609, up to the present day when Baptists are a major Protestant denomination in over 134 countries. New studies track the growth of Baptist life from Great Britain and North America to continental Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The Handbook carries this global perspective into the following section devoted to Baptist Practices, both internally in worship and ministry, and externally in areas such as mission, politics, and advocacy. The third section on Theology considers how Baptists have shared in the universal faith of the Christian church, as well as tracing their distinctive approaches to ecclesiology and religious freedom. The last section reflects on Issues that have engaged Baptists yesterday and today. Some issues have deep roots in Baptist history, such as gender, race, peace-making, and the social nature of the gospel. Others raise new challenges in today's context, such as ecumenical and inter-religious relationships. This volume offers an essential resource for Baptist Studies, but also an invitation to explore Baptist life and thought for readers from other Christian communions, faiths, and those without religious affiliation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fiddes, Paul S.

Bebbington, David

Flowers, Elizabeth H.

Harmon, Steven R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- CHAPTER 1: Paul S. Fiddes: Introduction: Baptist Studies at Present

- PART I. History

- CHAPTER 2: Ruth Gouldbourne: Anabaptists, Separatists, and Baptists

- CHAPTER 3: Karen E. Smith: Baptists in the Seventeenth Century in Britain and North America

- CHAPTER 4: Michael A. G. Haykin: Baptists in the Eighteenth Century in Britain and North America

- CHAPTER 5: John H. Y. Briggs: Baptists in the British Isles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

- CHAPTER 6: Robert E. Johnson: American and Canadian Baptists in North America from 1800

- CHAPTER 7: Adam L. Bond: Black Baptists in North America

- CHAPTER 8: Grace Vargas: Baptists in the Caribbean

- CHAPTER 9: Keith Harper: Southern Baptists in North America

- CHAPTER 10: Lina Toth: Baptists in Continental Europe

- CHAPTER 11: João B. Chaves: Baptists in Latin America

- CHAPTER 12: Atola Longkumer and Ken Manley: Baptists in Asia and Oceania

- CHAPTER 13: Matthews A. Ojo: Baptists in Africa

- PART II. Practices

- CHAPTER 14: Christopher Ellis: Worship

- CHAPTER 15: Ian Randall: Spirituality

- CHAPTER 16: Jerusha Matsen Neal: Preaching

- CHAPTER 17: Anthony A. Peck: Baptism

- CHAPTER 18: Emily Snyder Andrews: The Lord's Supper

- CHAPTER 19: Timothy George: Confessing the Faith

- CHAPTER 20: Paul A. Richardson: Singing the Faith

- CHAPTER 21: Beth Allison Barr and Katherine Goodwin Lindgren: Ministry

- CHAPTER 22: Bill J. Leonard: Politics

- CHAPTER 23: Andrew Gardner: Advocacy

- CHAPTER 24: Laura Rodgers Levens: Foreign Mission

- CHAPTER 25: Paul S. Fiddes and John D. Weaver: The Arts and Sciences

- CHAPTER 26: Melody Maxwell: Global Fellowship

- PART III. THEOLOGY

- CHAPTER 27: Paul S. Fiddes: The Trinity and Christology

- CHAPTER 28: Curtis W. Freeman: Scripture and Authority

- CHAPTER 29: Elizabeth Newman and Mikeal C. Parsons: Theological Scholarship

- CHAPTER 30: Nancy Elizabeth Bedford: Salvation

- CHAPTER 31: David S. Dockery: Eschatology

- CHAPTER 32: Paul S. Fiddes: Ecclesiology

- CHAPTER 33: Paul Weller: Church, State, and the Freedom of Religion or Belief

- PART IV. Issues

- CHAPTER 34: Elizabeth H. Flowers: Women in the Church

- CHAPTER 35: James P. Byrd: Revival and Revivalism

- CHAPTER 36: Nathan A. Finn: Landmarkism

- CHAPTER 37: Carol Crawford Holcomb: Social Gospel

- CHAPTER 38: William Vance Trollinger Jr.: Fundamentalism

- CHAPTER 39: Steven R. Harmon: Ecumenical Relationships

- CHAPTER 40: C. Douglas Weaver: Charismatic and Pentecostal Relationships

- CHAPTER 41: Raimundo César Barreto: Interreligious Relationships

- CHAPTER 42: Helen Paynter: War and Peace

- CHAPTER 43: Paul Harvey: Baptists and Race

- CHAPTER 44: Mandy E. McMichael: Gender, Sexuality, and Family Values

- CHAPTER 45: Elizabeth H. Flowers and Steven R. Harmon: Conclusion: Future Directions in Baptist Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Paul S. Fiddes, the lead-editor, is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford, as well as Emeritus Principal and Senior Research Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. A minister ordained in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, he is also an Emeritus Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

David Bebbington, co-editor, is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling. Earlier he was a research fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and then taught at the University of Stirling from 1976 to 2019. He has also served several times as Visiting Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, Texas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Elizabeth H. Flowers, co-editor, is Professor of American Religious History in the Department of Religion at Baylor University, Texas. She was earlier a professor on the faculty of Texas Christian University. She now also serves as Director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church State Studies at Baylor and is Co-director of the study programme 'Baylor in Oxford'.

Steven R. Harmon, co-editor, is Professor of Historical Theology at Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, USA. He previously served on the faculties of Campbell University Divinity School in Buies Creek, North Carolina, USA and Beeson Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He is an ordained minister affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.