The Baptist story : from English sect to global movement / Anthony L. Chute, Nathan A. Finn, Michael A.G. Haykin.

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 12, 2015).

Introduction -- Section One: Baptists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Baptist beginnings -- Living under the cross -- The age of reason and revival -- Renewal and advance -- Section Two: Baptists in the nineteenth century -- Baptists and the world before them -- Progress and setbacks -- Expansion and adaptation -- Transitions and trends -- Section Three: Baptists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The early twentieth century -- Tension and expansion -- Controversies in a changing world -- Developments into the twenty-first century -- Section Four: Baptist beliefs -- Identity and distinctives.

The Baptist Story is a narrative history of a diverse group of people spanning over four centuries, living among distinct cultures on separate continents, while finding their common identity in Christ and expressing their faith as Baptists.

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