Paper Category: Church History

Being Tribals and Christians: The Complexity of ‘Charismatism’ among Evangelical Naga Baptists Christianity to the Nagas of Northeast India came through American Baptist missionaries from the late 19th century onwards and grew through modern education and medicine, missionary works, indigenous agents, and so on. In the 1950s and 1970s, most Naga-inhabited areas witnessed the Revivals … Read more

This paper will focus on preaching, African Americans in the United States, and the influence of the pulpit in African American culture. John Jasper, the African American pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond, VA, became an international celebrity by preaching the movement of the Sun. Jasper was a slave for 40 years … Read more

Was John Bunyan a Baptist? The question has often been raised, and it is not easily answered. In his recent dissertation, Timothy Haupt has argued that, despite being convictionally credobaptist, Bunyan should not be considered a Baptist—based on his practice of open communion—and that close communion was a boundary marker for Baptist identity in the … Read more

This comparative study aims to isolate and analyze similar healing reports found in the Gospel of Luke within the New Testament (NT) and the writings of the Church Fathers (CFs, corpus of writing) to identify similarities, differences, and patterns between healing narratives in these two sources. Specifically, this study examines the writings of Hippolytus of … Read more

Advocates of what I will term “high liturgical worship” increasingly contend that formal Reformed and Free Church worship constitutes a departure from the church catholic, especially from the fathers. (I use “high liturgical worship” to distinguish the liturgical practices characteristic of high church Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and some Lutheranism from formal Reformed and … Read more

In the last several decades, moral theologians have looked to Augustine and Augustinian themes in order to lay out contemporary political theologies. Meanwhile, several recent works of scholarly study on Augustine himself have appeared which foreground his Christology, particularly as it relates to political life. In this essay I will evaluate how Augustine’s distinct Christology … Read more

The majority Reformed position regarding the relationship between the old and new covenants in seventeenth century Britain may be summarized by the formula: same in substance but different in administration. There were disagreements, however, among those who held this position, particularly with respect to the differences between the covenants. In fact, the way in which … Read more