Reviews

In addition to a detailed analysis of some of the key documents for early Baptist history, the book contains in both the text and the appendices a wealth of biographical information on members of individual congregations.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

This substantial new study of early English Baptists is full of fresh insights and perspectives.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*

Exhaustive, detailed and persuasive.
*SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY*

The best, most reliable, history of the early Baptists.
*PATRICK COLLINSON, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

Sets a high standard for meticulous scholarship that advances new and persuasive theories for a foundational time period in Baptist history. [...] Stephen Wright's work is exhaustive, detailed, and persuasive.
*BAPTIST THEOLOGY, SW BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY*

This important book deserves to be read widely and its results incorporated into the way the story of early Baptists is told.
*THE EXPOSITORY TIMES*

A well documented historical reassessment of the place these believers held in the early Stuart era. [...] [This] work will hopefully lead to further studies of the early English Baptists.
*RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY*

Offers an in-depth reading of the primary and secondary sources of English Baptist origins and provides several provocative revisions to standard treatments of the era.
*BAPTIST HISTORY & HERITAGE*

Demonstrate[s] the rich diversity characteristic of Baptist belief in the period and the complex inter-relationships between different leaders, congregations, and groupings.it thus offers an important contribution to a fuller understanding of the English Revolution.
*JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY*

Wright's volume is very much to be welcomed moving as it does beyond the traditional debates.
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY*

A significant contribution to our understanding about how Baptists developed in the 1640s and why they belonged to differing factions. [...] For anyone seriously interested in looking at Baptists beginnings in seventeenth-century England, Dr Wright has set down a challenge which cannot be ignored.
*BAPTIST QUARTERLY*

A most impressive and well-argued work.
*BAPTIST UNION OF SCOTLAND NEWS*

This erudite work must be read by those interested in the origins of the Baptist traditions.
*CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY CIRCLE MAGAZINE*