8243_V1 Baptist Hist ...

The developments which receive most attention in this unit are the early shaping of English Baptist life in the seventeenth century, including the influence of the currents of the Reformation; the different stories of General and Particular Baptists; mission and growth; the effects of the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival on General and Particular Baptists; overseas mission; the formation of the Baptist Union in the nineteenth century; organised home mission and church planting; nineteenth-century theological tensions and the role of theological education; the shaping and reshaping of the Baptist Union in the twentieth century; the challenges of ecumenism and Pentecostal and charismatic streams in Britain. The implications of these developments for today will be examined. Principles which shape Baptist identity will be drawn from the studies of Baptist life.

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