Baptists and the Bible : The Baptist Doctrines of Biblical Inspiration and Religious Authority in Historical Perspective

by L. Russ Bush

Other authorsTom J. Nettles (Joint Author.)
Paper Book, 1980

Status

Available

Call number

IBMC Library - BS 480 B83 - Shlvd w/ Pastoral Care

Publication

Chicago : Moody Press

ISBN

0802404669 / 9780802404664

Description

A revised edition for students at the divinity school level who study the origins of modern Baptists in 17th Century England, bibliology of the 18th and 19th century Baptists of England and America, and the sources for present-day uncertainties in the field of bibliology, especially as it relates to the Southern Baptist Convention as well as the Northern Baptist Convention. An excellent tool for researchers, scholars, as well as laymen.

Local notes

CONTENTS:
Part 1: In the beginning -- 1. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters -- John Smyth -- Thomas Helwys -- John Murton -- later general Baptists -- Thomas Grantham -- conforming to the letter -- 2. And God divided the waters -- view of scripture in the 1644 Confession -- 3. And God saw that it was good -- the second London confession of the Holy Scriptures -- 4. The waters brought forth abundantly -- Roger Williams -- John Bunyan -- Benjamin Keach -- 5. Be fruitful and multiply -- John Gill -- Andrew Fuller -- 6. Unto a land that I will shew thee -- William Carey -- Adoniram Judson -- 7. They separated themselves the one from the other -- Francis Wayland -- John L. Dagg -- Part 2: A new king, which knew not Joseph -- 8. Their gods shall be a snare -- back to the Bible -- what is truth? -- the turning point -- currents of complexity -- 9. Come and let us go to Gilgal -- J.P. Boyce -- Basil Manly Jr. -- 10. O my son Absalom -- John A. Broadus -- Crawford H. Toy -- 11. That the Lord may continue his word -- Charles H. Spurgeon -- John Clifford -- 12. All his days thy depart not -- A.H. Strong -- Alvah Hovey -- 13. Then rose up the chief of the fathers -- E.Y. Mullins -- A.T. Robertson -- 14. Now these are they servants -- B.H. Carroll -- W.T. Connor -- 15. Do men gather grapes of thorns? -- Walter Rauschenbusch -- Shailer Matthews -- William Newton Clarke -- Harry Emerson Fosdick -- James Josiah Reeve -- 16. The beginning of sorrows -- northern Baptists -- southern Baptists -- Part 3: Whom say ye that I am -- 17. Things which are most surely believed among us -- the Charleston confession of 1665 -- the Philadelphia confession of 1742 -- articles of faith of the Kehukee association of 1777 -- principles of faith of the sandy creek association of 1816 -- terms of union between the Elkhorn and south Kentucky associations of 1801 -- the New Hampshire confession of 1833 -- a treatise on the faith of the free will Baptists (1834 and 1948) -- landmark Baptist confessions (1921 and 1923) -- the Baptist faith and message: the Memphis articles of 1925 -- the Baptist faith and message: the Kansas city confession of 1963 -- scripture in the Baptist confessions of faith -- 18. Of them which keep the sayings of this book -- the sayings of this book -- a contemporary restatement of the historic Baptist view of scripture -- he that keepeth the sayings -- blessed are they that do his commandments
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