The Baptist theologian Brian Haymes was given a festschrift yesterday in recognition of his contribution to Baptist life and theology. The book called Questions of Identity - a signal back to small earlier work - is edited by Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne, two colleagues who together with Brian wrote On Being the Church (Paternoster, 2009). The book will be available here soon and I'm sure will be available at the Baptist Assembly. For more see here from one of the book's contributors, Simon Woodman. The contents of the festschrift are:
‘A Preacher of Integrity’: Brian Haymes—A Brief Profile...............................xi
Chapter 1
Turn or Burn!: A Nonviolent Reading of Fire and Burning in the Book of Revelation
Simon Woodman
Chapter 2
Further Reflections on a Sacramental Understanding of Preaching
Michael J. Quicke
Chapter 3
‘Ambassadors for Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5.20): Ministry in the New Creation
Sean F. Winter
Chapter 4
Re-Envisioning the Wall of Separation, or One and a Half Cheers for Secularization: Toward and Ecclesial Identity after Christendom
Barry Harvey
Chapter 5
‘Bearer of our Sins’: Atonement Theology after Steve Chalke
Nigel G. Wright
Chapter 6
‘Through a glass darkly’: The Further Light Clause in Baptist Thought
Anthony R. Cross
Chapter 7
Dual Citizenship in Athens and Jerusalem: The Place of the Christian Scholar in the Life of the Church
Paul S. Fiddes
Chapter 8
A Matter of Conscience: A Quest for Otherness
John E. Colwell
Chapter 9
The Prophet Oded as an Early Good Samaritan
Robert Parkinson
Chapter 10
Knowing Together the Mind of Christ: Congregational Government and the Church Meeting
Stephen R. Holmes
Chapter 11
Prophets and Pietists: Differing Faces of Baptist Identity
Faith Bowers
Chapter 12
Revisioning Identity: Mennonite Reflections on Narrative
Alan Kreider
Chapter 13
Story-telling, Sacraments, and Sexuality
Ruth Gouldbourne
Chapter 14
Afterword
Christopher Rowland
Thanks for posting this. I will try to check out the book.
I have only met Brian once but he struck me as being a wonderful man.
Posted by: Casper | February 21, 2011 at 06:04 PM