| Unit name | Baptist History and Principles (Trinity & Baptist College) |
|---|---|
| Unit code | THRS20124 |
| Credit points | 10 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Finamore |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
Early Christianity |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Religion and Theology |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The module will integrate history and principles. It will begin with historical questions about the origins of English Baptists and move to doctrinal issues of ecclesiology and initiation. Lectures will cover 1. the development of General and Particular Baptists; 2. the New Connection; 3. mid-eighteenth-century high Calvinism; 4. the rise of associations; 5. the founding and early history of the Baptist Missionary Society; 6. early moves towards Union; 7. ministerial training; 8. nineteenth-century controversies; 9. social conscience, 10. the ecumenical movement and other twentieth-century developments, including the impact of the mission context on the tradition. Particularly significant individuals will provide points of focus, for example, Spurgeon and Clifford. The various issues of principle, such as those of authority, confessions, religious freedom, will be taken up at appropriate points of the course.
