Readings in Baptist History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings in Baptist History write by Joseph Early, Jr.. This book was released on 2008. Readings in Baptist History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compiles four centuries of the most notable religious documents from the Baptist tradition in a single setting. It contains key information concerning the theology, origins, conflicts, denominational organization, and historical events of early English Baptists, American Colonial Baptists, Southern Baptists, American Baptists, the Baptist Missionary Association, European Baptists, Baptist Bible Fellowship, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship plus profiles of influential pastors, theologians, missionaries, Baptist leaders, and more. - Back cover.
Readings in Historical Theology
Readings in Historical Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings in Historical Theology write by Robert F. Lay. This book was released on 2009-04-01. Readings in Historical Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This broad-ranging collection of the primary sources that have shaped the theology of Christianity, spans Old Testament to modern writings. This historical theology textbook includes informative introductions and guiding questions from the author.
Baptist Church Perpetuity
Baptist Church Perpetuity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baptist Church Perpetuity write by Willis Anselm Jarrel. This book was released on 1894. Baptist Church Perpetuity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of the Baptists
A History of the Baptists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Baptists write by Robert George Torbet. This book was released on 1963. A History of the Baptists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essential reference work detailing the history of Baptists around the world has been studied by seminarians for years.
John the Baptist in History and Theology
John the Baptist in History and Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John the Baptist in History and Theology write by Joel Marcus. This book was released on 2018-11-16. John the Baptist in History and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis that challenges the conventional Christian hierarchy of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth While the Christian tradition has subordinated John the Baptist to Jesus of Nazareth, John himself would likely have disagreed with that ranking. In this eye-opening new book, John the Baptist in History and Theology, Joel Marcus makes a powerful case that John saw himself, not Jesus, as the proclaimer and initiator of the kingdom of God and his own ministry as the center of God's saving action in history. Although the Fourth Gospel has the Baptist saying, "He must increase, but I must decrease," Marcus contends that this and other biblical and extrabiblical evidence reveal a continuing competition between the two men that early Christians sought to muffle. Like Jesus, John was an apocalyptic prophet who looked forward to the imminent end of the world and the establishment of God's rule on earth. Originally a member of the Dead Sea Sect, an apocalyptic community within Judaism, John broke with the group over his growing conviction that he himself was Elijah, the end-time prophet who would inaugurate God's kingdom on earth. Through his ministry of baptism, he ushered all who came to him—Jews and non-Jews alike—into this dawning new age. Jesus began his career as a follower of the Baptist, but, like other successor figures in religious history, he parted ways from his predecessor as he became convinced of his own centrality in God's purposes. Meanwhile John's mass following and apocalyptic message became political threats to Herod Antipas, who had John executed to abort any revolutionary movement. Based on close critical-historical readings of early texts—including the accounts of John in the Gospels and in Josephus's Antiquities—as well as parallels from later religious movements, John the Baptist in History and Theology situates the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism and compares him to other apocalyptic thinkers from ancient and modern times. It concludes with thoughtful reflections on how its revisionist interpretations might be incorporated into the Christian faith.
