x, 436 pages ; 23 cm

"Highlighting the voices of significant but socially marginalized thinkers as well as acknowledged theologians such as Roger Williams and Charles Spurgeon, historians, theologians, pastors, and church leaders alike will find this volume one of the most complete, yet accessible works available." -- Back cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

pt. 1. To be a baptizing church: the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- 1. The net of faith / Petr Chelčický -- 2. Letter from Conrad Grebel to Thomas Münzer -- 3. On infant baptism against Oecolampad / Balthasar Hubmaier -- 4. The Schleitheim Confession, Congregational order / Michael Sattler -- 5. The sign of tau / Menno Simons -- 6. If we suffer with him / Claesken Gaeledochter -- 7. On the seven ordinances of the Church of God / Dirk (Dietrich) Philips

pt. 2. To be an obedient church: the seventeenth century -- 8. The character of the beast / John Smyth -- 9. The mystery of iniquity / Thomas Helwys -- 10. The primitive Christian religion / Thomas Grantham -- 11. The palace beautiful / John Bunyan -- 12. Paradise Lost Book 5, 6 / John Milton -- 13. Christenings make not Christians / Roger Williams -- 14. The examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson / Anne Hutchinson -- Who would true valour see

pt. 3. To be a free church: the eighteenth century -- 15. Election and rejection / John Gill -- 16. The gospel worthy of all acceptation / Andrew Fuller -- 17. An enquiry / William Carey -- 18. An appeal to the public for religious liberty / Isaac Backus -- 19. A follower of the despised Gallilean / Hannah Lee Corbin -- 20. A blow at the root / John Leland

pt. 4. To be an apostolic church: the nineteenth century -- 21. Modern infidelity considered / Robert Hall Jr. -- 22. The duty of Baptists / John Leadley Dagg -- 23. Special obligations of woman to spread the gospel / Alice Armstrong -- 24. None but Jesus / Charles Haddon Spurgeon -- 25. If I was only converted / Noah Davis -- 26. Baptist principles and practices / Francis Wayland -- 27. The union of Christians and the restoration of primitive Christianity / Alexander Campbell -- 28. The trail of blood / James Milton Carroll -- 29. I had a vision / Nat Turner -- 30. Prejudice against the Negro modern / Rufus Perry -- 31. The scourging of a race / William Bishop Johnson -- 32. The fiery furnace and soul liberty / Curtis Lee Laws

pt. 5. To be a righteous church: the twentieth century -- 33. Miracles as attesting a divine revelation / Augustus Hopkins Strong -- 34. The soul's competency in religion / Edgar Young Mullins -- 35. Ladies last / Helen Barrett Montgomery -- 36. The kingdom of God / Walter Rauschenbusch -- 37. Theology as an empirical science / Douglas Clyde Macintosh -- 38. Progressive Christianity / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- 39. The disciplined life / Muriel Lester -- 40. The cross as victory over sin / Walter Thomas Conner -- 41. The community of the church / Robert C. Walton -- 42. The dawn of a new reformation / Carl F.H. Henry -- 43. Jesus and the disinherited / Howard Thurman -- 44. Christian light on human relationships / Benjamin Elijah Mays -- 45. Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- 46. Reconciliation in the church / Takashi Yamada -- 47. The question of apostasy / Dale Moody -- 48. Evangelical theology in the two thirds world / Orlando E. Costas -- 49. African theology / Osadolor Imasogie -- 50. Exodus and exile: the two faces of liberation / John Howard Yoder

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