What are some good books that overview the Baptist tradition that aren't just limited to the Southern Baptist Convention? These could include books on theology, ecclesiology/polity, and history, or general overviews.
This is not my area, but I remember reading this book some years ago as a Logos Now free preview and enjoying it immensely:
https://www.logos.com/product/46162/baptist-theology
It's also available as part of bundle, if that interests you:
https://www.logos.com/product/33098/tt-clark-studies-in-theological-systems
I'm not sure on how they cover it but these are books (16 of 'em) that are coming over from the WordSearch purchase.
had one of them I had gotten free when I had WS. Here is a link to them. There are cheap enough (right now at least).
https://www.logos.com/search?query=%22Baptists%20and%20the%20Christian%20Tradition%22&sortBy=Relevance&limit=60&page=1&ownership=all&geographicAvailability=availableToMe
This is not my area, but I remember reading this book some years ago as a Logos Now free preview and enjoying it immensely: https://www.logos.com/product/46162/baptist-theology It's also available as part of bundle, if that interests you: https://www.logos.com/product/33098/tt-clark-studies-in-theological-systems
Also in this bundle which is quite useful.
https://www.logos.com/product/64889/doing-theology-series
Bumping for a few more recommendations.
Being a bad girl, yet again, bumping a request for books on the Baptist tradition? Bob says Baptists are the predominant customer segment ... I'd have assumed a flood of enthused recommendations (or at least 'which version', like the COC). Instead, best I can see, some un-enthusists!
Ok, point me to the corner.
Bob says Baptists are the predominant customer segment
This is why I'm asking for recommendations. It's not that I don't have Baptist resources in my library or that there is a dearth of resources in the store. Quite the opposite so I was hoping some "enthused" Baptists would help me narrow the choices down a bit. Alas.
I think having some basic knowledge of Scofield is pretty critical to understanding SOME Baptists. Baptist churches can be VERY VERY different from each other. Some towns have multiple Baptist churches with some churches being only a street away from each other.
I have attended quite a few Baptist churches and was even re-baptised in one. They were all so different. Sometimes they were more different from each other, than another church that was another denomination.
I once attended a Baptist church that was right next to a Congregationalist church and those churches did more together than the Baptist church did with the other nearby Baptist churches. We kids used to hop over the fence and attend the back-to-back activities at both. Or mix and match. If we didn't like what one was offering, we just hopped over fence and did that same thing over there. To keep us from doing that as much, the churches started scheduling events at separate times so we would attend both. As long as they fed us, and let us all stay together, we stuck around as long as they wanted us.
Kiyah:
I am trying to find a FL interview (in the blog) to an author that used the word Baptist as an acrostic to define the principal characteristics.
If not mistaken Biblical was the first one, but do not recall the others, I do not remember if they were advertising a book, but it all seemed interesting and helpful.
I did write down the acrostic but cannot find it.
