Michael A. G. Haykin
Michael A. G. Haykin is professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
View Author's PageThe Baptist Story, 2nd Edition
Overview
What does it mean to be a Baptist? How did this now worldwide movement begin and what are the current issues it faces today? The 2nd edition of The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement gives a narrative history of Baptists spanning four centuries and many continents.
In this new edition, Baptist historians Anthony Chute, Nathan Finn, and Michael Haykin provide a fresh update, detailing events up to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention, relocating their chapter on identity and distinctives to the front of the book, and adding new recommended reading resources.
Written with an irenic tone and illustrated with photographs in every chapter, The Baptist Story is ideally suited for graduate and undergraduate courses.
Table of Contents
Introduction
SECTION ONE: BAPTIST BELIEFS
Chapter 1: Baptist Identity and Distinctives
SECTION TWO: BAPTISTS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Chapter 2: Baptist Beginnings
Chapter 3: Living under the Cross
Chapter 4: The Age of Reason and Revival
Chapter 5: Renewal and Advance
SECTION THREE: BAPTISTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 6: Baptists and the World before Them
Chapter 7: Progress and Setbacks
Chapter 8: Expansion and Adaptation
Chapter 9: Transitions and Trends
SECTION FOUR: BAPTISTS IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
Chapter 10: The Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 11: Tension and Expansion
Chapter 12: Controversies in a Changing World
Chapter 13: Recent Developments in the Baptist Story
Conclusion: A Global Movement
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary
Image Credits
General Index
Scripture Index
Overview
What does it mean to be a Baptist? How did this now worldwide movement begin and what are the current issues it faces today? The 2nd edition of The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement gives a narrative history of Baptists spanning four centuries and many continents.
In this new edition, Baptist historians Anthony Chute, Nathan Finn, and Michael Haykin provide a fresh update, detailing events up to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention, relocating their chapter on identity and distinctives to the front of the book, and adding new recommended reading resources.
Written with an irenic tone and illustrated with photographs in every chapter, The Baptist Story is ideally suited for graduate and undergraduate courses.
Table of Contents
Introduction
SECTION ONE: BAPTIST BELIEFS
Chapter 1: Baptist Identity and Distinctives
SECTION TWO: BAPTISTS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Chapter 2: Baptist Beginnings
Chapter 3: Living under the Cross
Chapter 4: The Age of Reason and Revival
Chapter 5: Renewal and Advance
SECTION THREE: BAPTISTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 6: Baptists and the World before Them
Chapter 7: Progress and Setbacks
Chapter 8: Expansion and Adaptation
Chapter 9: Transitions and Trends
SECTION FOUR: BAPTISTS IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
Chapter 10: The Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 11: Tension and Expansion
Chapter 12: Controversies in a Changing World
Chapter 13: Recent Developments in the Baptist Story
Conclusion: A Global Movement
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary
Image Credits
General Index
Scripture Index
