EDITORIAL: FRIENDS AT WORK
Edward Milligan, Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry, 1775-1920, The Sessions Book Trust, Ebor Press, Huntington Road, York, UK, YO31 9HS, 624pp, 2007, £30 + £5.00 p&p UK, or £7.50 p&p overseas
BAPTISTS AND CREATION CARE Keith G. Jones
In spite of a few outstanding exceptions, Baptists down the years and into the present have not focused much on care for the created world. Dr Jones challenges individuals, churches and BUGB to address these concerns seriously. This paper was given to the Baptist Historical Society seminar at the Baptist Assembly, Blackpool 2008.
Keith Jones is Rector of the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech
Republic
ROBERT JAMES McCRACKEN: Theology of Mission. Kenneth Roxburgh
This paper explores the life and ministry of Robert James McCracken, a pastor and theologian from Scotland whose ministry in Scotland, Canada and New York City illustrates the importance of a theology of mission that connects the gospel of Jesus Christ with the contemporary world.
Ken Roxburgh is Armstrong Professor and Chair of Department of Religion at Samford
University, Birmingham, Alabama. He was formerly Principal of the Scottish Baptist College.
THE PEOPLE CALLED GHANAIAN BAPTISTS Frank Adams
The late Frank Adams was General Secretary of the Ghana Baptist Convention. He presented this short history to the Heritage Commission of the Baptist World Alliance meeting in Durban, South Africa, in 1998. Frank Adams’ doctoral studies were undertaken through the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. The article has been updated from the ‘Brief History of Ghana Baptists’ delivered by Kojo Osei-Wusuh at the BWA Heritage and Identity session in Ghana, July 2007.
REVIEWS
Sibyl Phillips, Glorious Hope, Women and Evangelical Religion in Kent and Northamptonshire, 1800-1850, Northampton, Compton Towers Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-954547-0-2
Reviewed by Karen Smith, Tutor, South Wales Baptist College
The Theology of John Smyth by Jason K.Lee (2003) Mercer University Press, xiv + pp310
Reviewed by Stephen Copson, Secretary, Baptist Historical Society
Anthony R. Cross, The Evangelical Sacrament: Reforming Baptism, Friends of Bloomsbury Inaugural Lecture, London: Bloomsbury Baptist Church, 2007.
Reviewed by John E. Colwell, Spurgeon’s College
Aurel Mateesco, Persecution in Romanian Baptist Life, Emanuel University Press, 137pp, 2007. Obtainable Dr Dr Cornelius C. Simut, perchoresis@emanuel.ro.
Reviewed by John Briggs, Regent's Park College
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