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""I welcome the opportunity to add my enthusiasm for Pinson's new book on Free Will Baptist history. For too long our historians have devoted most of their attention to the two well-known streams of our history: namely, the Palmer movement in the South and the Randall movement in the North. Dr. Pinson deals with those in a fresh way, of course, but he also gives much needed attention to the way the Free Will Baptist movement coalesced and spread--especially in the important South--in various areas. From this book you will learn things you didn't already know, and you'll gain a fresh perspective on the history of the denomination as a whole. Pinson has ably explored Free Will Baptist history, including new sources of information, not just for things we're already familiar with but also throughout the entire Free Will Baptist movement as we know it today. Kudos to him and to the University of Tennessee Press for this innovative book."" --Robert E. Picirilli, professor emeritus of New Testament and former academic dean, Welch College ""Readers looking to understand where Free Will Baptists came from and what they are doing today need look no further than Matthew Pinson's The Free Will Baptists: A New History. No one knows more about the Free Will Baptists than Pinson. In a long-overdue and gap-filling denominational history, he carefully examines the personal, ecclesial, organizational, and institutional foundations underlying a fascinatingly unique expression of the Baptist genius. Pinson brings out into the light Free Will Baptist treasures old and new. With the appearance of this book, students and scholars of Baptist and American history now have a definitive resource for teaching and researching a diverse and evolving Baptist tradition."" --John Inscore Essick, associate professor of Church History, Baptist Seminary of Kentucky ""The largest stream that shaped Baptist life in America was the Reformed-Calvinistic-Missionary Baptist tradition with significant influence from the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scholarship has consequently overstudied this mainstream to the neglect of other movements, suggesting that their influences and contributions can be ignored without loss to the wider Baptist family. We are indebted to J. Matthew Pinson for this critical monograph on the General-Free Will-Arminian stream of Baptist life in America that helps us to see that the Baptist story is diverse and contested. His emphasis on the discontinuity of Free Will Baptist groups from their evangelical Calvinistic counterparts shows that smaller does not mean less interesting or important. And if the genealogy of the Baptist movement is more like a river that ebbs and flows with rivulets that burst forth and return to main current than it is like branches of a tree that never return to the trunk, perhaps we may look to the Free Will Baptists to refresh the waters that vitalize our shared life."" --Curtis W. Freeman, research professor of Theology and Baptist Studies and Ruth D. Duncan director of the Baptist House of Studies, Duke University Divinity School ""The subtitle of this book could easily read, ""A New and Definitive History."" Matthew Pinson is the foremost scholar of our day on Free Will Baptists and he has provided a work that will shape this field of study for decades to come. He expertly offers a revision of Free Will Baptist beginnings, carefully weaves theological development within the historical narrative, and writes with a flair that makes the entire story informative and enjoyable."" -- Anthony Chute, professor of Church History, California Baptist University ""With the background and mind of an historian, Matthew Pinson has authored a new history of Free Will Baptists based on solid scholarly research and interpretation. His research has added much new material, which he has integrated into already known history. With his skill as a writer, Pinson has produced a well-written and very readable book for twenty-first-century students and interested readers and researchers of denominational history."" --Gary Fenton Barefoot, curator, Free Will Baptist Historical Collection, University of Mount Olive

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J. Matthew Pinson is president and professor of historical theology at Welch College. He is author of Arminian and Baptist: Explorations in a Theological Tradition and editor of Classical Arminianism: A Theology of Salvation by F. Leroy Forlines.

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