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Author: J. Stanley Lemons
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Imprint: Baylor University Press
Weight: 1.112kg
ISBN: 9781481310406
ISBN 10: 1481310402
Pages: 736
Publication Date: 30 December 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Lemons has written an engaging and interesting history Baptists in Rhode Island. The writing style makes the work accessible to college students and the breadth of topics makes it valuable to graduate students. Individuals interested in the origins of Baptist in America, Baptists in New England, and Baptist polity and practice need to have this book in their libraries. --Lloyd Harsch Baptist History and Heritage
Lemons certainly is the foremost historian of America's First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. In this fine volume he surveys historical developments, issues of unity and division, and theological distinctives with clarity and excellent documentation which will send scholars to multiple sources for additional study. Stan provides a well-written, superbly documented study of Baptist life in Rhode Island. --Bill J. Leonard, Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and Church History Emeritus, Wake Forest University Stan Lemons has written the definitive history of Baptists in Rhode Island. It is a feather in the Baptist cap and a great resource. He has sorted out complicated and confusing matters in the early history by assiduously sifting through the minutes and records that few scholars have the opportunity or patience to do. It will be the standard for years to come. --Curtis W. Freeman, Research Professor of Theology, Director of the Baptist House of Studies, Duke Divinity School Most Baptist theological students and ministers know that Rhode Island played a significant role in the early history of Baptists in America, but their knowledge seldom extends beyond awareness that Roger Williams was instrumental in the foundation of the Providence colony and the formation there of the first Baptist congregation in America. While the standard Baptist history textbooks unfortunately supply little additional information, Lemons not only places those details within a much more intriguingly complex story of American Baptist beginnings--the book's 'retracing' of the rest of the story of Rhode Island Baptists offers an instructive microcosm of the fortunes of American Christianity and its global connections. --Steven R. Harmon, Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity
Author Information
J. Stanley Lemons is Emeritus Professor of History at Rhode Island College.
