Religion / Protestant / Baptist

Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church

by Mary E. Abrums – AltaMira Press (December 28, 2010)

Moving the Rock tells the stories of a group of African American women who belong to a small storefront church in central Seattle.

I Fired God

by Jocelyn Zichterman – St. Martin's Press (May 13, 2013)

A compelling memoir and account of the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse.

Jocelyn Zichterman was born, raised, married into, and finally, with her family, fled...

Historical Dictionary of the Baptists

by William H. Brackney – Scarecrow Press (April 13, 2009)

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Baptists expands upon the first edition with an updated chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries...

The Baptist Faith and Message 2000: Critical Issues in America's Largest Protestant Denomination

by Joseph D. Wooddell, Douglas K. Blount & Susie Hawkins – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (June 07, 2007)

Since its inception, controversy has surrounded the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, Southern Baptists' most recent confession of faith. The present volume of essays by Baptist scholars explains that document...

Thinking With the Church: Toward a Renewal of Baptist Theology

by Derek C. Hatch – Cascade Books (December 08, 2017)

Over the centuries, Baptists have labored to follow Christ in faithful devotion and service. More recently, they have occasionally partnered with fellow Christians from other traditions in these efforts while...

Baptist Revival Fellowship

by Phil Hill – Apostolos Publishing Ltd (January 03, 2018)

This book explores the history of the Baptist Revival Fellowship from 1938-1972, its effectiveness in promoting spiritual renewal and the influence of its most prominent member, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

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All of Grace

by Charles Spurgeon – GLH Publishing (August 22, 2017)

C. H. Spurgeon writes, “Only God can justify the ungodly, but He can do it to perfection. He casts our sins behind His back; He blots them out. He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.”...

The Beginning of Baptist Ecclesiology: The Foundational Contributions of Thomas Helwys

by Marvin Jones & Malcolm B. Yarnell – Pickwick Publications (June 28, 2017)

The basic question, "Where did Baptists come from and why?" has two camps that offer differing explanations: (1) the English Separatist camp produced the ministries of foundational Baptists, John Smyth and Thomas...

Into the Pulpit

by Elizabeth H. Flowers – The University of North Carolina Press (April 09, 2012)

The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. Elizabeth Flowers argues, however, that for both moderate...

The Secret of Guidance

by F. B. Meyer – Dancing Unicorn Books (January 15, 2017)

Many children of God are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have...

Southern Baptist Identity

by David S. Dockery, James Leo Garrett, Gregory A. Wills & Timothy George et al. – Crossway (June 08, 2009)

What was once a small, southern, predominantly white denomination has become America's largest evangelical denomination. Yet with the Southern Baptist Convention's growth have come the challenges of increasing...

Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher's Daughter

by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock – Center Street (June 04, 2008)

Growing up Southern and Baptist in Eastern Kentucky, Elizabeth Hancock's world revolved around Sunday School, foreign missions projects, revival meetings and of course, the Kentucky Wildcats, who "glorified...