Orthodox Radicals (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) Matthew C. Bingham [Bingham

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190912367
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190912369
• Author(s): Matthew C. Bingham [Bingham, Matthew C.]

In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation’s collective religious life. Today, Baptists have developed into one of the world’s largest Protestant denominations. Despite this impressive transformation, those first English Baptists remain chronically misunderstood. In Orthodox Radicals, Matthew C. Bingham clarifies and analyzes the origins and identity of Baptists during the English Revolution, arguing that mid-seventeenth century Baptists did not, in fact, understand themselves to be a part of a larger, all-encompassing Baptist movement. Contrary to both the explicit statements of many historians and the tacit suggestion embedded in the very use of “Baptist” as an overarching historical category, the early modern men and women who rejected infant baptism would not have initially understood that single theological stance as being in itself constitutive of a new collective identity. Rather, the rejection of infant baptism was but one of a number of doctrinal revisions then taking place among English puritans eager to further their on-going project of godly reformation.

Table contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Jessey Circle and the Invention of Baptist Identity
Chapter 2 – Baptists Along the Congregational Way
Chapter 3 – “Between Us and the Compleat Anabaptists”: Reframing Sacramentology in Light of Ecclesiology
Chapter 4 – “Opposite to the Honor of God” No Longer: Rehabilitating ‘Anabaptism’ in Cromwellian England
Chapter 5 – “Years of Freedome, by God’s Blessing Restored”: Baptistic Self-Identity During the Interregnum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes

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