New Book: Revolution and Resistance 

The Baptist Historical Society are pleased to announced the publication of Revolution and Resistance: English Baptist Life in the Seventeenth  Century edited by Stephen L. Copson and Karen E. Smith (Baptist Historical Society, 2026)

This new book is a companion to B. R. White's English Baptists in the 17th Century (Baptist Historical Society, 1983, 1996).

It is also the second part  of a new series of books on Baptists through the centuries — see Challenge and Change: English Baptist Life in the Eighteenth Century edited by Stephen Copson and Peter Morden (Baptist Historical Society, 2017)

The contents of the book are as follows:

 Part One: Church Life
 
 1.  Covenants, Confessions and Catechisms — Paul S. Fiddes
 2.    Women in Congregational Life — Rachel Adcock
 3.    ‘Messengers’: Pioneers and Planters among General and Particular Baptists — Ian Birch
 4.    A Pen Portrait White’s Alley General Baptist church — Stephen L. Copson
 
Part Two:  Spirituality and Devotion
 
5.    Spiritual Guidance: Francis Smith’s ‘Symptomes of growth & decay to godlinesse’ — Karen E. Smith
6.    Seventeenth-Century Baptist Hymns and Poetry — Timothy Whelan
7.    A Pen Portrait  Anne Wentworth: Prophet and ‘the phoenix  who arises from the ashes’  — Alison Searle
 
Part Three:  Sharing the Faith
 
8.    Ministerial Education — Ruth Gouldbourne
9.    Lost in Translation?  Re-assessing the Significance of  Charles-Marie de Veil’s Commentary on Acts — Christine E. Joynes
10.  John Myles and Baptists in England, Wales and Massachusetts — D. Densil Morgan
11.  A Pen Portrait Overlooked Voices: Expressions of Generosity  in the Wills of Baptist Women (1669–1718) — Larry Kreitzer
 
Part Four:  Challenges and Controversy
 
12.  Benjamin Keach and the Debate about Congregational Song — Matthew Stanton
13.  Baptists among the Dissenters: Shifting Patterns of Identity and Alliance in Restoration England — Matthew C. Bingham
14.  ‘Their teachers have been Ignorant,  Idle, dumb dogs’: disputations between Baptists and parish ministers in the 1650s — Stephen Copson
15.  Baptist Millennialism in the Seventeenth Century — Simon Woodman
16.  A Pen Portrait  Congregational Meetings of the Wapping Baptists (1677–1712) — Nathan Sherman

Revolution and Resistance is available here.