British Baptist Theologians No. 6: Anthony R. Cross

MTh (Cardiff, 1988), PhD (University of Keele, 1997)

Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Theological Research, University of Roehampton (1998-2001)
Consultant Editor, Paternoster Press (2001-2009)
Research Fellow, Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College (2003-2009)
Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College (2009-2012)
Adjunct Supervisor, IBTS (2016-2021)

Lectures to 'Forum on Baptism', BWA Annual Gathering (2017)

Selected Publications

___ 'Revd Dr Hugh Martin', Baptist Quarterly 37 (January, April, July, 1997)
___ (ed.) with Stanley Porter, Baptism, New Testament and the Church: Historical and Contemporary Studies in Honour of R.E.O. White, JSNTSup. 171 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999)
___ '"One Baptism" (Ephesians 4.5): A Challenge to the Church', Baptism, New Testament and the Church (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), 173-209
___ 'Service to the Ecumenical Movement: The Contribution of British Baptists, Baptist Quarterly 38.3 (1999), 107-22
___ Baptism and the Baptists: Theology and Practice in Twentieth-Century Britain, Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol 3 (Paternoster, 2000)
___ 'Baptists and Baptism: A British Perspective', Baptist History and Heritage 35.1 (2000)
___ 'Dispelling the Myth of English Baptist Baptismal Sacramentalism', Baptist Quarterly 38.8 (2000)
___ (ed.) with Stanley Porter, Dimensions of Baptism. Biblical and Theological Studies, JSNT Supplement Series 234 (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002)
___ 'The Meaning of 'Baptisms' in Hebrews 6.2' in Dimensions of Baptism (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002)
___ (ed.) Ecumenism and History: Studies in Honour of John H.Y. Briggs (Paternoster, 2002)
___ 'Baptism, Christology and the Creeds in the Early Church: Implications for Ecumenical Dialogue' in Ecumenism and History (Paternoster, 2002)
___ (eds.) with Philip Thompson, Baptist Sacramentalism, Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol 5 (Paternoster, 2003)
___ 'The Pneumatological Key to H. Wheeler's Baptismal Sacramentalism' in Baptist Sacramentalism (Paternoster, 2003), 151-76
____ (ed.) with Stanley E. Porter, Semper Reformandum: Studies in Honour of Clark H. Pinnock (Paternoster, 2003)
___ 'Being Open to God's Sacramental Work: A Study in Baptism' in Semper Reformandum (Paternoster, 2003), 355-77.
___ 'Faith-Baptism: The Key to an Evangelical Baptismal Sacramentalism', Journal of European Baptist Studies 4.3 (2004), 5-21
___ (ed.) with Alan Sell, Protestant Non-Conformity in the Twentieth Century (Paternoster, 2005)
___ (ed.) with Philip Thompson, Recycling the Past or Researching History?, Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol 11 (Paternoster, 2005)
___ 'The Myth of English Baptist Anti-Sacramentalism' in Recycling the Past or Researching History? (Paternoster, 2005)
___ (ed.) with Ian Randall and Toivo Pilli, Baptist Identities: International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Paternoster, 2006)
___ (ed.) with Ian Randall, Baptists and Mission: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Baptist Studies (Paternoster, 2007)
___'The Evangelical sacrament: baptisma semper reformandum', Evangelical Quarterly, 80.3 (July 2008), 195-218.
___ with Brian Haymes and Ruth Gouldbourne, On Being the Church: Revisioning Baptist Identity (Paternoster, 2008)
___ (ed.) with P. E, Thompson, Baptist Sacramentalism 2 (Paternoster, 2008)
___ 'Baptism in the Theology of John Calvin and Karl Barth' in Calvin, Barth and Reformed Theology edited by Neil MacDonald and Carl Trueman (Paternoster, 2008)
___ 'Baptismal Regeneration: Rehabilitating a Lost Dimension of New Testament Baptism' in Baptist Sacramentalism 2 (Paternoster, 2008), 149-74.
___ Should we take Peter at his word (Acts 2.38)? (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Occasional Papers; Regent's Park College, 2010)
___ (ed.), Nicholas J. Wood, Exploring Baptist Origins (Regent's Park College, 2010)
___'The Adoption of Believer's Baptism and Baptist Beginnings' in Exploring Baptist Origins (Regent's Park College, 2010)
___ (ed.) with Ruth Gouldbourne, Questions of Identity: Essays in honour of Brian Haymes (Regent's Park College, 2011)
___ '"Through a glass darkly": The Further Light Clause in Baptist Thought' in Questions of Identity: Essays in honour of Brian Haymes (Regent's Park College, 2011)
___ (ed.) with John H. Y. Briggs, Baptists and the World: Renewing the World (Regent's Park College, 2011)
___ 'Sapientia Experimentalis: 'Knowledge by experience' - Aspects of a Baptist Baptismal Spirituality' in Pieter J. Lalleman, Peter J. Modern and Anthony R. Cross (eds.), Ground in Grace: Essays to Honour Ian M. Randall (Spurgeon's College and Baptist Historical Society, 2013) 
___ Recovering the Evangelical Sacrament: Baptisma Semper Reformandum (Pickwick, 2013)
___ (ed.) with John H. Y. Briggs, Freedom and the Powers (Baptist Historical Society, 2014)
___ '"Christ Jesus ... exalted ... farre above all principalities and powers": Baptist Attitudes to Monarchy,Country and Magistracy, 1609-1644' in Freedom and the Powers (Baptist Historical Society, 2014)
___ 'Baptists, Peace and War' in Baptists and War: Essays on Baptists and Military Conflict, 1640-1990s edited by Gordon L. Heath and Michael Haykin (Pickwick, 2015)
___ (ed.) with Peter Modern and Ian Randall, Pathways and Patterns in History: Essays in Honour of David Bebbington (Baptist Historical Society and Spurgeon's College, 2015)
___ 'The Early Bristol Baptist Tradition as a Seedbed for Evangelical Reception' in Pathways and Patterns in History (2015)
___ 'To communicate simply you must understand profoundly': Preparation for Ministry among British Baptists (Baptist Historical Society, 2016)
___ ‘The sacrament of baptism among the first Baptists’, in Ecclesia semper reformanda est: A Festschrift on Ecclesiology in Honour of Stanley K. Fowler on his Seventieth Birthday edited by David G. Barker, Michael A.G. Haykin, and Barry H. Howson (Joshua, 2016), 189-211.
___ Useful Learning: Neglected Means of Grace in the Reception of the Evangelical Revival among British Particular Baptists (Pickwick, 2017)
___ ‘“Solid learning … never an encumbrance”: C.H. Spurgeon and the Necessity of Theological Education’, Baptist Quarterly 48.3 (July, 2017)
___ ‘The Foundations of Baptist Attitudes to Violence and Peace among the Earliest Baptists’, Baptistic Theologies 9.2 (Autumn, 2017)
___ ‘“Uſeful learning”: Theological Training and the Particular Baptist Revival in the Long Eighteenth Century’, in Baptists and Revivals: Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Baptist Studies edited by William L. Pitts Jr (Mercer, 2018), 160-80.
___ 'Baptism in Recent Baptist Thought', American Baptist Quarterly 37.2 (2018): 175-97.
___ ‘Reversing “the amazing ignorance and ſtupidity of ſome perſons”: Baptists, the Biblical Languages, and Bible Translation’, Baptist Quarterly 50.2 (April, 2019), 44-57.
___ (ed.) with Greg Forster, Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom for Fruitful Christian Vision of the Good Life (Pickwick, 2020)
___ (ed.) with Philip E. Thompson, Baptist Sacramentalism 3 (Pickwick, 2020)
___ with Philip E. Thompson, 'Introduction: Sacramentalism Alive and Well' in Baptist Sacramentalism 3 (Pickwick, 2020)
___ (ed.) with Brian Haymes, Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology, and the Arts in Honour Ruth M. B. Gouldbourne (Pickwick, 2021)
___ '"Spend and Be Spent": The Nature of Ministry' in Re-Membering the Body (Pickwick, 2021)

Comments

[graham]

Reading Anthony Cross was so helpful to me when I began to re-think baptism. I'm sure it's more complicated than this, but sometimes it seems like he has kick-started a re-discovery of baptist sacrementalism one-handed.

How a generation read Beasley-Murray and apparently agreed, without becomming sacramentalists, is beyond me!

[Sean]

Hi Andy

Anthony trained at Bristol College and Cardiff during the late 80s, working initially in NT stuff (gospel tradition from memory). He then went onto pastorates in Cambridge and Bath, and from there to teach at Roehampton. Much of his work now is with Paternoster and he has been responsible for the explosion in Baptist academic publishing over the last 5 years or so.

[andy goodliff]

Thanks Graham and Sean. I'll update post accordingly.

[Tractor Girl]

Maybe I've missed something but is there a reason why all the Baptist theologians you have looked at are male?

[David Wright]

Anthony's second pastorate was at Calne Baptist Church, Wiltshire not Bath. When he left Calne he went to live in Bath.

[Kimberly Falk]

We went to Anthony's church in Cambridge and became good friends.I am trying to find out his mailing address. He and Jackie send Christmas cards each year with no return address.Can anyone help us?