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"""If the separation of church and state has provided the healthy environment out of which American Evangelicalism has developed and thrived, then this volume provides essential reading as to an important part of the story."" - John Briggs, Senior Research Fellow in Church History at Regent's Park College, Oxford University ""With the First Great Awakening in mind, Snavely explores the Separate Baptists, exemplified by Isaac Backus, as the natural consequence of the practical outworking of the movement. The work is extensively footnoted and wide-ranging in scope as it traces Reformation ideas back to their biblical and early church roots. Students of Puritanism and Colonial America will find this volume intriguing."" - Lloyd Harsch, Professor of Church History and Baptist Studies, Associate Dean of Theological and Historical Studies, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary"

If the separation of church and state has provided the healthy environment out of which American Evangelicalism has developed and thrived, then this volume provides essential reading as to an important part of the story. - John Briggs, Senior Research Fellow in Church History at Regent's Park College, Oxford University With the First Great Awakening in mind, Snavely explores the Separate Baptists, exemplified by Isaac Backus, as the natural consequence of the practical outworking of the movement. The work is extensively footnoted and wide-ranging in scope as it traces Reformation ideas back to their biblical and early church roots. Students of Puritanism and Colonial America will find this volume intriguing. - Lloyd Harsch, Professor of Church History and Baptist Studies, Associate Dean of Theological and Historical Studies, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

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Bruce Snavely has served as a missionary church-planter, pastor, and a college and seminary professor, and presently takes theological training to indigenous pastors through the foundation he began, Global Baptist Training Foundation(www.gbtf.net). For twenty years, he served in Canada starting and pastoring churches. Since 2001, he has taught on the university and graduate levels. Snavely earned a master of divinity degree from Moody Theological in 1999 and a PhD in historical theology from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom in 2007. Snavely continues to teach as an adjunct professor, and, through Global Baptist Training Foundation, trains groups of pastors in Africa, Asia, and Central America. He is married to Grace, and they have four married children and twelve grandchildren.

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