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British Baptist Theologians 24: Richard L. Kidd

DPhil 1987 (Oxford): Human fallenness : a comparative study in the theologies of Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner

Tutor, Northern Baptist College, 1986-94
Principal, Northern Baptist College, 1994-2009
Co-Principal, Northern Baptist Learning Community, 2009-13

Editor, British Journal of Theological Education, 1994-98

Publications

'The Christian Hope', Fraternal 185 (1979)

'The Call to Be' in A Call to Mind: Baptist Essays Towards a Theology of Commitment (Baptist Union, 1981)

'The Documents of Covenant Love' in Bound To Love: The Covenant Basis of Baptist Life and Mission (Baptist Union, 1985)

'Christianity and Culture (2) Science: Religion and Science: One World orTwo?', Fraternal 219 (July 1987)

'Creation: the How and Why?', Theology Themes 1.1 (Spring 1992)

'One Jesus: Many Faces', Theology Themes 1.2 (Autumn 1992)

'The Holy Spirit and Liberation', Theology Themes 11.3 (Spring 1993)

'Out of the Depth', Theology Themes 2.1 (Autumn 1993)

'The Churches' Response to Disability', Theology Themes 3.1 (Autumn 1994)

'Why 'Covenant' Remains a Crucial Word for Baptists', Theology Themes 4.1 (Autumn 1995)

'Baptism and the Identity of Christian Communities' in Reflections on the Water: Understanding God and the World through the Baptism of Believers edited by Paul S. Fiddes (Smyth and Helwys, 1996)

(ed.) Something to Declare: A Study of the Declaration of Principle (Whitley, 1996)

(ed.), On the Way of Trust (Whitley, 1997)

'Baptists and Theologies of Liberation' in Doing Theology in a Baptist Way edited by Paul S. Fiddes (Whitley, 2000)

with Graham Sparkes, God and the Art of Seeing: Visual Resources for a Journey of Faith (Smyth and Helwys, 2003)

'Spirituality in Suffering: A Defining Experience' in Under the Rule of Christ: Dimensions of Baptist Spirituality edited by Paul S. Fiddes (Smyth and Helwys, 2008)

Memory and Communion' in Baptists and the Communion of Saints: A Theology of Covenanted Disciples by Paul Fiddes, Brian Haymes and Richard Kidd (Baylor, 2014)

'Hope, Strangeness and Interconnections' in Baptists and the Communion of Saints: A Theology of Covenanted Disciples by Paul Fiddes, Brian Haymes and Richard Kidd (Baylor, 2014)

'On Realizing "The Dance"' in For the Sake of the Church: Essays in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes edited by Anthony Clarke (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies Vol 3; Regent's Park College, 2014)

with Rosemary Kidd, 'Freeset', Baptist Ministers' Journal 331 (July 2016)

'An Ongoing Apology' in Journeying to Justice: Contributions to the Baptist Tradition across the Black Atlantic edited by Anthony Reddie, Wale Hudson-Roberts and Gale Richards (Paternoster, 2017)

'Bringing our Concerns' in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)

'The Art of Seeing', Journal of European Baptist Studies 19.2 (2019)

'Perceiving an Absent Presence: The Visual World of Paul Nash' in Communion, Covenant and Creativity: An Approach to the Communion of Saints through the Arts by Paul Fiddes, Brian Haymes and Richard Kidd (Cascade, 2020)

'Telling Little, Revealing Much: Transcendence Through the Art of Mark Rothko' in Communion, Covenant and Creativity: An Approach to the Communion of Saints through the Arts by Paul Fiddes, Brian Haymes and Richard Kidd (Cascade, 2020)

'Hiddenness' in Communion, Covenant and Creativity: An Approach to the Communion of Saints through the Arts by Paul Fiddes, Brian Haymes and Richard Kidd (Cascade, 2020)

'Intimations of Transcendence: A Legacy of the "Scottish Colourists"' in Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology and the Arts in Honour of Ruth Gouldbourne edited by Anthony R. Cross and Brian Haymes (Pickwick, 2021)

British Baptist Theologians 23: Darrell Jackson

ThD (Birmingham, 2009)

Mission Advisor, Baptist Union of Great Britain (1996-2003)
Researcher in European Mission and Evangelism, Conference of European Churches (2003-2007)
Director, Nova Research Centre and Lecturer in European Mission, Redcliffe College, Gloucestershire (2007-2011)
Associate Professor of Missiology, Morling College, Sydney (2021-2019)
Associate Professor and Director of Research, Whitley College, Melbourne (2019-)

 

Publications

’Constructing Futures: outlining a transhumanist vision of the future and the challenge to Christian theology of its proposed uses of new and futures developments in technology’, Journal of Faith and Science Exchange (2000)

'Does the future have a denomination?', Baptist Ministers' Journal 277 (Jan. 2002): 18-23

‘Mission-shaped presence in Europe’, International Review of Mission 95 (July/October 2006)

‘Proselytism in a Central and Eastern European perspective’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 8.2 (January 2008): 18-36

’Europe and the migrant experience: transforming integration’, Transformation 28.1 (2011)

‘The futures of missiology: imaginative practices and the transformation of rupture’ in Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission Engaging Plurality edited by V. Mortensen and A. Neilson (Eerdmans, 2011)

'Imagine a Church without Migrants: a European perspective' in Thinking Christianly about Immigration edited by D. Carroll (Denver Seminary, 2011)

’Intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in Europe’ in Mission in Context: Explorations inspired by Andrew J. Kirk edited by Cathy Ross (Ashgate, 2012)

‘For the Son of Man did not come to lead, but to be led: Matthew 20:20-28 and Royal Service’ in Servantship edited by Graham Hill (Wipf and Stock, 2013)

Love of God, love of neighbour’: is this really an evangelical missiology?’ In The Mission of God: Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission edited by Mark Oxbrow and Tim Grass (Regnum, 2015)

’Conclusion’ in Congregational Transformation in Australian Baptist Church Life edited by Darren Crenshaw and Darrell Jackson (Morling, 2015)

(ed), Cultural Diversity, Worship and Australian Baptist Church Life (Morling, 2016)

'Evangelism as Life-affirming activity in the city’, International Review of Mission 105.1 (2016)

The State of the Churches in Europe’, Review and Expositor 115.2 (2018): 157-74 

’Come on in! The making of many home’ in Reimagining Home edited by Darrell Jackson et al (Morling Press, 2019)

’Re-placing Mission’ in Not in Kansas Anymore: Christian Faith in a Post-Christian World edited by Michael Frost et al (Morling, 2020)

’The Diakonian Dei: service of the world and forms of diaconal ministry among Baptists’ in International Handbook on Ecumenical Diakonia (Regnum, 2021)

(ed.) with Alessia Passarelli, Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches' Responses in Europe 'Being Church Together' (2021 [2008, 2016])

with Rene Erwich, Eleanor Flynn and Titus S. Olorunnisola, 'Equipping Families and Friends to Offer Spiritual Care to People Living with Dementia: Findings from a Meta-Synthesis', Religions 13.5 (2022)

 

 

British Baptist Theologians 22: Anthony J. Clarke

MA (Oxford, 1996), BD (Oxford, 2001), DMin (Chester, 2017)

Tutorial Fellow in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning, Regent's Park College, Oxford (2007-)

 

Publications

___ (ed.), Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant (Whitley, 2002)

___ 'The Covenantal Basis of God's Trinitarian Life' in Bound for Glory? God, Church and World in Covenant (Whitley, 2002)

___ A Cry in the Darkness: The Forsakenness of Jesus in Scripture, Theology and Experience (Smyth and Helwys, 2002) 

___ (ed.) Expecting Justice, but Seeing Bloodshed: Some Baptist Contributions to Following Jesus in a Violent World (Whitley, 2004)

___ (ed.) with Paul S. Fiddes, Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Smyth and Helwys, 2005)

___ 'Gaining Fresh Insights: Film and Theological Reflection in a Pastoral Setting' in Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Smyth and Helwys, 2005)

___ 'Membership Matters: From a Barrier to a Threshold', Baptist Ministers’ Journal (2006)

___ 'A Feast for All? Reflecting on Open Communion for the Contemporary Church' in Baptist Sacramentalism 2 (Paternoster, 2008)

___ (ed.) with Andrew Moore, For the Love of God: Essays in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes (Oxford, 2014)

___ (ed.), For the Sake of the Church: Essays in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes (Regent's Park College, 2014)

___ 'A Trinitarian Theology of Ministerial Formation' in For the Sake of the Church: Essays in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes (Regent's Park College, 2014)

___ 'How Did we End up Here? Theological Education as Ministerial Formation in British Baptist Colleges', Baptist Quarterly 36.2 (2015)

___ with Paul S. Fiddes, Dissenting Spirit: A History of Regent's Park College, 1752-2017 (Regent's Park College, 2017)

___ 'Ascension: "Rich Wounds Yet Visible Above"' in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell (Pickwick, 2018)

___ 'Listening to the Voices: Baptist Reflections on the Conversations' in Sharing the Faith at the Boundary of Unity: Further Conversations between Anglicans and Baptists (Regent's Park College, 2019)

___ 'The So-Called London Baptist Education Society of 1752 — Some Further Reflections', Baptist Quarterly 50.3 (2019)

___ 'Communion and Formation: How Eating Changes Us' in Reconciling Rites: Essays in Honour of Myra N. Blyth (Regent's Park College, 2020)

___ Forming Ministers or Training Leaders? An Exploration of Practice in Theological Colleges (Resource, 2021)

___ (ed.), Being Attentive: Explorations in Practical Theology in Honour of Robert Ellis (Regent's Park College, 2021)

___ 'Theological Reflections as Community Discernment: Some New Possibilities for Church Meetings' in Being Attentive: Explorations in Practical Theology in Honour of Robert Ellis (Regent's Park College, 2021)

___ 'Holding the Ring: The Marginal Leadership of All' in Attending to the Margins: Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore edited by Helen Paynter and Peter Hatton (Oxford cEntre for Baptist Studies, 2022)

___ 'Questioning our Commitments: Exploring Hermeneutical Practice in Discussions of Human Sexuality', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 8 (March 2023)

British Baptist Theologians 21: Paul Goodliff

Dpl Spurgeon's; M.Th (KCL 1992); DMin (KCL, 2009)

General Superintendent, Central Area (1999-2001)
Regional Minister, Central Baptist Association (2002-04)
Head of Ministry Department, Baptist Union (2004-14)
Minister, Abingdon Baptist Church (2015-18)
General Secretary, Churches Together in England (2018-2022)

Associate Research Fellow, Spurgeon's College (2010-)

Publications

 ‘The Power and the Glory’, Ministry Today 3 (February 1995)

‘The Church as Sign and Agent of the Kingdom’ in Stephen Finamore (ed.), On Earth as in Heaven: A Theology of Social Action for Baptist Churches (Didcot: Baptist Union, 1996)

Care in a Confused Climate: Pastoral Care and Postmodern Culture (DLT, 1998)

‘Surviving and Thriving in Ministry’, Ministry Today 19 (June 2000)

‘The Pastoral Care of Pastoral Counsellors‘, Ministry Today 23 (October 2001)

‘Contemporary Models of Translocal Ministry’ in Stuart Murray (ed.), Translocal Ministry: Equipping the Churches for Mission (Didcot: Baptist Union, 2004)

‘Doing or Being: An Old Chestnut Revisited’, Baptist Minister’s Journal 228 (October 2004)

With Unveiled Face: A Pastoral and Theological Exploration of Shame (DLT, 2005)

‘Training Ministerial Students in Spirituality’, Ministry Today 33 (Spring 2005)

‘We want it all, and we want it now?’, Ministry Today 39 (March 2007)

'Inclusive Representation Revisited' in Pieter J. Lalleman (ed.), Challenging to Change: Dialogues with a Radical Baptist Theologian. Essays presented to Dr Nigel G Wright on his sixtieth birthday (Spurgeon's College, 2009)

Ministry, Sacrament and Representation: Ministry and Ordination in Contemporary Baptist Theology  and the Rise of Sacramentalism (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies, Vol 2; Oxford: Regent's Park College, 2010)

'Anyone Still for Ordination?', Ministry Today 50 (November 2010)

'Baptist Church Polity and Practice', Law & Justice 168 (2012)

'Approaching Retirement', Ministry Today 57 (April 2013)

'Women's Ministry: An Exploration at a Historic Moment', Baptist Quarterly 45.8 (October 2014)

'In Obedient Living Find Your Home: Reflections on Baptists and Discipleship' in Myra Blyth and Andy Goodliff (eds.), Gathering Disciples: Essays in Honor of Christopher J. Ellis (Pickwick, 2017)

Shaped for Service: Ministerial Formation and Virtue Ethics (Pickwick, 2017)

'Natural Law in the Baptist Tradition' in Norman Doe (ed.), Christianity and Natural Law: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2017) 

(ed.) with Andy Goodliff, Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell (Pickwick, 2018)

'Becoming Present to God' and 'Annunciation: Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive' in Rhythms of Faithfulness (Pickwick, 2018)

(ed.) with Roger Standing, Episcope (SCM, 2020)

'Baptist Church Polity' in Norman Doe (ed.), Church Laws and Ecumenism: New Paths for Christian Unity (Routledge, 2020)

'Virtue Ethics in an age of Social Media', Crucible: The Journal of Christian Social Ethics (July 2023)

Remembering Baptists: James McClendon (again)

On this day in 2000 James McClendon died. He was one of a few Baptists to offer us a systematic theology and in my opinion it is the most important we Baptists have so far.

Here lies some of the opening lines from each of his 3 Volumes.

From Ethics:

Theology means struggle. It may begin as Bonhoeffer said in silence, but when the silence is broken, a battle begins. This seems regrettable; in matters of great moment, the human heart yearns ceaselessly for secure truth, and it is easy for us to believe that unchallenged beliefs are self-evident truths. A little reflection, however, will show that this is not so; in fact we very often have believed without doubt or contradiction what turn out to be mere falsehoods ... Thus when we set out upon Christian theology or ethics we must be reconciled to the fact that here as elsewhere hard truth is not available without hards struggles.

From Doctrine:

In shaping its teaching, the church seeks simply to be the church, so that Christians may be a people who find in Christ their centre, in the Spirit their communion, in God's reign their rule of life.

From Witness:

Consider the following image: We Christians, in the short time, we have existed, as measured by humankind's longer history have all crossed into a unknown realm, in Jesus' phrase "a kingdom"; we have explored its boundaries, discovered its laws, encountered its majesty, found our true selves buy finding it. Now, like so many Marco Polos, we return to find our homeland a strange country. Unaware of our journey, it speaks a language we have not heard when abroad. Its ways, seen now through our refocused eyes, are at once familiar and questionable. We wish to tell of our exotic journey and to divide our booty with those at home, but how can our offer be understood? The image is in several ways defective, yet it has its point; Christians must take their place anew the old setting. To find the new standpoint in our earthly homeland calls for a Christian critique of its culture; thus we will see where and how the church must stand to be the church.

 

Remembering Baptists: James McClendon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today in 2000 James McClendon died. He authored Ethics, Doctrine & Witness & provided baptistic vision of theology

McClendon's baptistic theology was centred around a conviction that 'this is that.' His work sits alongside that of Hauerwas & Yoder.

Alongside his 3-volume systematic theology, McClendon did important work on biography as theology & the importance of convictions

IBTS in Prague & now Amsterdam through Parush Parushev, Keith Jones & now @StuartMBlythe has been a centre for theology Jim McClendon style.

The 3rd volume of The Collected Works of Jim McClendon @Baylor_Press is due out early 2016.

Hauerwas on MClendon: 'I always suspect that God gave Jim a Catholic body but forced him to live a baptist life - a small 'b' Baptist life'

The importance of Jim McClendon's theology is he starts with Ethics & then Doctrine reversing the practice of the way much theology is done.

Remembering Baptists: Benjamin Keach

Today (18 July) is a day to remember the life of the Particular Baptist theologian and pastor Benjamin Keach.

Keach was the leading theological thinker of the late 17th Century among the Particular Baptists. Author of numerous works and pastor of a congregation in Horsleydown, Southwark.

Born on the 29 Feb 1640. He became a General Baptist in his teens. He was arrested, imprisoned, tried, fined, and his works burnt in 1660 and 1664. Following which he moved to London and moved from the General Baptists to the Particular Baptists, probably through the influence of his second wife Susannah and his friendship with Hanserd Knollys.

He argued with the likes of Richard Baxter against infant baptism and authored catechisms and confessions as well as allegorical works in a similar vein to John Bunyan. He argued for the laying on hands following baptism, which at time the Particular Baptists were unconvinced by and more famously he argued for the use of hymns in worship. When his church in Horsleydown voted to sing a hymn following the sermon, some have said we are the beginnings of the great tradition of English Protestant hymnody.

For more on the life of Benjamin Keach see:

Jonathan Arnold, The Reformed Theology of Benjamin Keach (Centre for Baptist History & Heritage; Regent's Park College, 2013)

D. B. Riker, A Catholic Reformed Theologian: Federalism and Baptism in the Thought of Benjamin Keach (Studies in Baptist History & Thought; Paternoster, 2009)

James B. Vaughan, 'Benjamin Keach' in Timothy George & David Dockery (eds.), Baptist Theologians (Broadman, 1990) 

 

Glen Harold Stassen, Baptist Ethicist and Peacemaker (1936-2014)

Glen Stassen (1936-2014) died earlier this week. He was Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary and the director of the Just Peacemaking Initiative and he was a Baptist.

Author of Just Peacemaking, Kingdom Ethics and A Thicker Jesus, amongst much else. A Thicker Jesus is based on his 2011 The Nordenhaug Memorial lectures delivered at IBTS.

Larry L. McSwain and Wm. Loyd Allen named him amongst the Twentieth-century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethics. His work should be read alongside and in conversation with that of Yoder, Hauerwas and McClendon, whom he counted friends.  

In 2013 he was the recipient of the Baptist World Alliance Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award.

Last year's Summer edition of the Baptist journal Perspectives in Religious Studies honoured him with a festschrift and earlier this year, former students published Ethics as if Jesus Mattered: Essays in Honor of Glen H. Stassen (Smyth & Helwys, 2014).

David Gushee remembers his teacher and colleague Prof Stassen here, as do the faculty at IBTS, another former student Michael L. Westmoreland-White, and current Spurgeon's tutor Joshua Searle.

British Baptist Theologians 20: Keith G. Jones

BA (Manchester) - Northern Baptist College
MA in Peace Studies - Bradford (1980)
PhD - (University of Wales) - IBTS (2007)

1980-1990 General Secretary, Yorkshire Baptist Association
1990-1998 Deputy General Secretary, Baptist Union
1998-2013 Rector, International Baptist Theological Seminary

President, Baptist Historical Society 

 

Publications

‘Have Baptists got Faith in the City?’, Baptist Quarterly 33.1 (January 1989)

‘The Authority of a Trust Deed: A Yorkshire Perspective’, Baptist Quarterly 33.3 (July 1989), 103-18

From Conflict to Communion (Baptist Union, 1997)

A Believing Church: Learning from some Contemporary Anabaptist and Baptist Perspectives (Baptist Union, 1998)

A Shared Meal and a Common Table: Some reflections on the Lord’s Supper and Baptists (Whitley, 1999)

'The International Baptist Theology Seminary of the European Baptist Federation', American Baptist Quarterly 38.2 (1999)

‘Rethinking Baptist Ecclesiology’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 1.1 (September 2000)

‘Developing the concept of an eco-seminary’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 2.2 (January 2002)

‘The Labyrinth of the World and and the Paradise of the Heart: insights on European Baptist spirituality’ Baptist Quarterly 40.4 (October 2003)

‘Towards a Model of Mission for Gathering, Intentional, Convictional Koinoina’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 4.2 (2004)

’Leading a theological institution in (Central) Europe today’ in Theological Education as Mission edited by Peter Penner (Neufeld Verla, 2005)

'Abandoning Public Worship' in Keith Jones and Parush Parushev (eds.), Currents in Baptistic Theology of Worship Today (IBTS, 2007)

'Anabaptist Mission Gathering Round the Table' in Wilbert R. Shenk and Peter F. Penner (eds.), Anabaptism and Mission (Neufeld Verlag, 2007)

‘The Baptist World Alliance and Baptist Identity: a reflection on the Journey to the Centenary Congress Message, 2005’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 8.2 (January 2008)

‘Baptists and Creation Care’, Baptist Quarterly 42.7 (July 2008), pp.452-476

(ed.) with Ian Randall, Counter-Cultural Communities: Baptistic Life in Twentieth-Century Europe (Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol. 32; Paternoster, 2008)

The European Baptist Federation: A Case Study in European Baptist Interdependency 1950-2006 (Studies in Baptist History and Thought Vol. 43; Paternoster, 2009)

'Baptists and Anabaptists Revisited' in Anthony R. Cross and Nicholas Wood (eds.), Exploring Baptist Origins (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies Vol.1; Regent's Park College, 2010)

'Gathering Worship: Some Tentative Proposals for Reshaping Worship in our European Baptistic Churches Today', Journal of European Baptist Studies 13.1 (September 2012)

'Spirituality and Structures', Journal of European Baptist Studies 13.2 (January 2013)

‘A Moment of Transformation: The European Baptist Federation and the Collapse of the Soviety Union’ in Pieter Lalleman et al (eds.), Grounded in Grace (Spurgeon’s College, 2013)

'Re-visiting the Web: Baptistic Ecclesia and Interdependency' Baptistic Theologies 7.2 (2015)

British Baptist Theologians 19: David McIlroy

Visiting Senior Lecturer in Law, SOAS

Associate Research Fellow, Spurgeon's College

PhD (Spurgeon's College / University of Wales)

Publications

'A Christian State', Law and Justice (1994)

'A Christian View of the State', Law and Justice (1999)

'Subsidiarity and Sphere Sovereignty: Christian Reflections on the Size, Shape and Scope of Government', Journal of Church and State 45.4 (2003)

A Biblical View of Law and Justice (Paternoster, 2004)

'What's at Stake in Natural Law?', New Blackfriars 89 (September 2008)

''The Law of Love.' Cambridge Papers, 17.2 (2008)

'Towards a Relational and Trinitarian Theology of Atonement', Evangelical Quarterly 80 (2008)

A Trinitarian Theology of Law (Paternoster, 2009)

'The role of government in classical Christian Thought' in Nick Spencer and Jonathan Chaplain (eds.), God and Government (SPCK, 2009)

‘Idols and Grace: Re-envisioning political liberalism as political limitism’, Political Theology 11 (2010), 205-225

'The Use of the Bible by the Christian Human Rights Organisations International Justice Mission and Christian Solidarity Worldwide.' Political Theology 11.3 (2010) pp. 473-485

'The Right Reason for Caesar to Confess Christ as Lord: Oliver O’Donovan and Arguments for the Christian State', Studies in Christian Ethics 23.3 (2010)

‘Theology and Legal Theory’ in Christopher Craig Brittain and Francesca Aran Murphy (eds.) Theology, University, Humanities: Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini (Wipf and Stock, 2011) 127-49

'How is the rule of law a limit on power?' Studies in Christian Ethics, (29) 1, pp 34-50.