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Baptist Church
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Barker | Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship, Barker, Mary Anne. A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa. Macmillan. 196 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | AB
chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists
. Her family belonged to the Church of England
(though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself). |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | She attended the Baptist
Meeting at Tilehouse Street in Hitchin, where the minister was John Wilson
, and to which she made a donation of two pounds fifteen shillings for building in 1692. Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, pp. 1-33. 30 |
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 |
Characters | Laura Ormiston Chant | Sellcuts' Manager cannot be isolated from Chant's then-still-notorious attack on the Empire Theatre
, as well as her belief in temperance. From Mora's narrative to the idealized Palace of Amusements that reflects Chant's earlier writings... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
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. |
Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Maria De Fleury | MDF
was a fervent Protestant, who had dealings with the sect of Baptists
, as well as attending an Independent
or Presbyterian
congregation headed by John Towers
(who wrote one of the prefaces to her... |
Cultural formation | Katharine Evans | KE
grew up an Anglican
, but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists
, then the Independents
, before becoming one of the Society of Friends
very soon after its inception... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | Elizabeth was born to a Baptist
family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox
in the embryonic... |
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...
Women writers item
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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