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Baptist Church
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Wentworth | Again, AW
comes straight to the point: her persecutions at the hands of her hard-hearted Yoak-Fellow and of eminent Baptists
are, she says, well known to Christians and even to her enemies around the city... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Wentworth | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna Lyall | The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey
ism, is broad-minded Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co. 33 |
Textual Production | Sarah Davy | Following the early death of SD
this year, her religious meditation or conversion narrative (Baptist
or Independent
) was posthumously published as Heaven Realiz'd. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Author summary | Anne Wentworth | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Naden | Her maternal grandfather, J. C. Woodhill
, was a retired jeweller, a Baptist
elder, and a man of literary interests who possessed an extensive and eclectic library: a great book-lover in his retirement Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 13 |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Jean Binta Breeze | JBB
is a Jamaican of black African descent and of the professional class. (She also has white forebears, a fact which does not please her.) Breeze, Jean Binta. The Fifth Figure. Bloodaxe Books. Breeze 30 |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | While living in Silchar, she studied Christianity under the Baptist
missionary Isaac Allen
, much to her husband's disapproval. As a widow she carried these studies further. Burton, Antoinette. At the Heart of the Empire. University of California Press. 80 |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Watts | Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland
, SW
was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters
. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott. 39 |
Timeline
By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...
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By May 1619
The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed the doctrine of total human depravity, setting it at the head of their articles of doctrine.
Spring-summer 1647: A London Baptist girl in her teens, Sarah...
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Spring-summer 1647
A LondonBaptist
girl in her teens, Sarah Wight
, fell into a months-long trance, the climax of four years of spiritual turmoil about which she later published a pamphlet.
January 1654: The radical Baptist/Fifth Monarchist Vavasor...
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January 1654
The radical Baptist
/Fifth MonarchistVavasor Powell
was tried by the Council of State
at Whitehall, London.
Probably 1659: Margaret Abbott, a convert from the Church...
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Probably 1659
Margaret Abbott
, a convert from the Church of England
to the Baptists
, published with her name her only text, A Testimonyagainst the False Teachers of this Generation.
27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...
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27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the Baptist
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
1925: The Baptist Church officially recognised...
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1925
The Baptist Church
officially recognised women pastors.
1957: The Baptist Church allowed women pastors...
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1957
The Baptist Church
allowed women pastors to use the title of minister.
Texts
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