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Baptist Churches and their Books
Major research projects such as the Dissenting Academies Project at the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, and the Reading Experience Database, have recently alerted us to the importance of...
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DR WILLIAMS’S CENTRE FOR DISSENTING STUDIES Seminar in Dissenting Studies, the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams’s Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are welcome. Wednesday 17 June 2015 5.15 to...
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Baptist women
Rachel Adcock has just published her monograph, Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (Ashgate, 2015, 232p, ISBN 978-1-4724-5706-6). ‘Although literary-historical studies have...
View ArticleInvenCaP Blog – What Did Seventeenth-Century Dissenters Call Themselves?...
By Mark Burden At the Dissenting Experience conference on ‘Scandal, Controversy, Persecution: Shaping Dissenting Identities’ at Dr Williams’s Library (14 November 2015), John Coffey delivered a paper...
View ArticleInvenCaP Blog – Sabbatarianism, Literary Form, and the Lothbury Square Church...
By Mark Burden Debates about the relationship between Baptist doctrines, church practices, and literary forms have tended to centre around key texts such as Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, and have often...
View ArticleInvenCaP Blog – Forgotten Voices from the Lothbury Square Church Book:...
By Mark Burden In a previous blog, ‘Sabbatarianism, Literary Form, and the Lothbury Square Church Book’, I explored various misconceptions which have arisen from historians’ interpretations of the...
View ArticleInvenCaP Blog – The church records of White’s Alley, London – (1) –...
By Mark Burden Despite having been almost completely ignored by historians, the records of the General Baptist church at White’s Alley in London, 1681-1714 provide one of the fullest sets of...
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By Mark Burden In recent times, historians have quite correctly expressed reservations about the wide–spread assumption that a family’s non–attendance at a parish church might indicate their support...
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InvenCaP Blog – A Spur to Lukewarm Spirits: The ‘Proceedings Book of Meetings...
By Rachel Adcock On 14 February 1654 the Baptist church that would later meet regularly at Loughwood, East Devon, gathered at nearby Kilmington and recorded the first entry in what is now known and...
View ArticleInvenCaP Blog – Reformation Principles and the Puritan Church Books of the 1650s
By Mark Burden Although they have been widely consulted by church historians and historians of religion, the role played by Puritan church records of the 1650s in the furtherance of personal, church,...
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