Robert E Johnson

A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches

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Produktbeschreibung

This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that shaped Baptist identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780521701709
• ISBN-10: 0521701708
• Artikelnr.: 30365367

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Johnson is currently Professor of Christian Heritage and Academic Dean at the Central Baptist Theological Seminary. He has also taught at the Faculdade Teológica Batista de São Paulo, Brazil, and the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the editor of American Baptist Quarterly and the author of numerous scholarly articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Foundations: 1. The primal shaping processes of the
global Baptist movement; Part II. Age of Emerging Baptist Denominational
Traditions, 1600-1792: 2. Seeds for diversity amid an early Anglo
prevalence; Part III. The Frontier Age, 1792-1890: 3. Baptists' frontier
age in the British Empire; 4. Baptists' frontier age in the United States;
5. Baptists' frontier age in the European continent, Africa, Asia, and
Latin America; Part IV. The Age of Proliferating Traditioning Sources,
1890-Present: 6. Baptists' evolving traditioning sources in Africa, Asia,
and Oceania; 7. Baptists' evolving traditioning sources in Latin America,
the Caribbean, Europe, and Eurasia; 8. Baptists' evolving traditioning
sources in North America; Part V. Beliefs and Practices: 9. Baptists'
beliefs and practices.