The History of the Church
The Puritan Roots of the American Baptist Movement
John B. Carpenter, PhD
The fog around Baptist origins from Puritanism is created by a confluence of differences in defining “Puritan,” the chaotic jumble of early seventeenth century English ecclesiastical history, and basic historiographical issues on how to approach Baptist origins.
The Birth of Baptist Churches: Puritan Recovery of the Great Pattern
Michael A.G. Haykin, ThD
Baptists were birthed in the matrix of Puritanism, that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century movement of reform and renewal.
How OT Scriptures Changed the Course of History at the Jerusalem Council
Greg Lanier, PhD
Tensions were running high. The “who’s who” were all there, for the stakes were simply too enormous to miss this meeting. The keynote addresses were set to begin.
Ten Baptists Everyone Should Know
Steve Weaver, PhD
Steve Weaver has been the pastor of Farmdale Baptist Church in Frankfort, Ky., since 2008. He also serves as a Fellow for The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he is an adjunct professor of church history. Steve is the author of Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist: Hercules Collins (1647-1702) and Particular Baptist Identity in Early Modern England and has co-edited of a modern edition of An Orthodox Catechism (a 1680 Baptist revision of the Heidelberg Catechism).
This is an excellent historical resource!
