Revolution and Resistance: English Baptist Life in the Seventeenth Century offers a fresh and richly textured exploration of Baptist identity during a century of upheaval. Edited by Stephen L. Copson and Karen E. Smith, this scholarly collection brings together leading historians to examine church life, spirituality, mission, controversy, and overlooked voices within early Baptist communities. Rather than retelling familiar political narratives, the essays probe the convictions, practices, and lived experience that shaped congregations in times of revolution. With studies ranging from covenant theology and hymnody to women's leadership and millennial hope, this companion to B. R. White's volume illuminates the resilience, diversity, and theological depth of seventeenth-century English Baptists.
Smith, Karen: - Rachel Adcock is Reader in English Literature at Keele University where she teaches Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature Matthew C. Bingham is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Church History at Phoenix Seminary in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ian Birch is the Principal of the Scottish Baptist College in Paisley, and has published work on seventeenth-century Baptist hermeneutics and ecclesiology, Fifth Monarchists, and Women's Ministry in early Baptist congregations. Stephen L. Copson is Secretary of the Baptist Historical Society. Paul S. Fiddes is Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Oxford and Principal Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow, Regent's Park College, Oxford. Ruth Gouldbourne is Minister of Grove Lane Baptist Church, Cheadle Hulme. Christine E. Joynes is Tutorial Fellow in Theology, Regent's Park College, Oxford. Larry J. Kreitzer is a University Research Lecturer in The Faculty of Theology and Religion at The University of Oxford and is affiliated with Regent's Park College. D. Densil Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Theology, University of Wales, Trinity St David, Lampeter. Alison Searle is Professor of Textual Studies in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses primarily on early modern transatlantic Anglophone literatures and scholarly editing. Nathan Sherman has recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Leicester. He is now serving as a Baptist pastor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Karen E. Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University. Matthew Stanton is an Adjunct Faculty member at Heritage Bible College in Cambridge, Ontario, where he also acts as the Director of the Student Learning Centre, and he serves as a Teaching Fellow with the C. S. Lewis Institute. He is also the founder and editor of the Benjamin Keach Journal, an online database for Keachean studies. Timothy Whelan is Professor Emeritus of English at Georgia Southern University and Research Associate at the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent's Park College, Oxford. Simon Woodman is Minister of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London, and Baptist Chaplain at King's College, London.
