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A History of the Baptists

My reason for going back and rereading this text (originally published by Judson Press, 1950) was in conjunction with some study on the history of revival in America in the last two centuries.  Torbet has an interesting chapter (8) on the division of Baptists after the Great Awakening into “Regular” and “Separate”.  The Great Awakening […]

The Anabaptist Story

Eerdmans has printed the third edition of this scholarly work by Estep, professor Emeritus of Church History at Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Ft. Worth.  It is a fascinating account of Anabaptism from Zurich to England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is always amazing to read about (and see good documentation for) the great […]

Handbook of Denominations in the United ...

I have owned the sixth edition of this handbook for a long time so I was interested when I saw this new one.  This was published in 1995 and revised by Samuel Hill.  It has expanded the table of contents some, especially to cover the number of “evangelical” groups since the 1975 sixth edition.  Appendix […]

The Gospel and the American Dream

The more I read Bruce Shelley the more I like him. Dr. Shelley is the long-time professor of church history at Denver Seminary. This book is the best I have read yet. It addresses the question of why this generation is the way it is and gives a historical perspective of how the church has […]