The History of the Church
A Classification System of Religious Groups in the Americas by Major Traditions and Family Types
Clifton L. Holland
Holland has produced a massive 354-page analysis that will prove to be an excellent resource for scholars.
The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement
Anthony L. Chute, Nathan A. Finn, and Michael A. G. Haykin
The authors say that their audience includes, but is not limited to, independent Baptists and Cooperative Baptists, Seventh Day Baptists and Southern Baptists, Free Will Baptists and Reformed Baptists, regulative principle Baptists and seeker-sensitive Baptists. Among these groups are differing views of biblical inspiration, age of baptismal recipients, elder-led churches, women pastors, sovereign decrees, and the propriety of vacation Bible school—to name only a few!
Very well written History of the Baptists! Recommended!
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The complete nine volume edition of this historic reference work from Cambridge University.
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!
Christianity Through the Centuries
Earl E. Cairns. PhD
An examination of available church history texts reveals that most of them reflect a particular denominational or theological bias. This text was written from a conservative, nondenominational perspective. A Christian philosophy of
history underlies the presentation.