Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Jessey Circle and the Invention of Baptist
Identity
Chapter 2 - Baptists Along the Congregational Way
Chapter 3 - "Between Us and the Compleat Anabaptists": Reframing
Sacramentology in Light of Ecclesiology
Chapter 4 - "Opposite to the Honor of God" No Longer:
Rehabilitating 'Anabaptism' in Cromwellian England
Chapter 5 - "Years of Freedome, by God's Blessing Restored":
Baptistic Self-Identity During the Interregnum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Matthew Bingham is a lecturer in systematic theology and church history at Oak Hill College, London.
"Bingham's knowledge and pertinent use of both primary and
secondary source material is impressive. In the space of 157 pages
he includes 649 foot notes. He ties together sources and personal
narrative in an artistic way care fully constructing his argument
with literary grace." -- Tom J. Nettles, The Journal of Andrew
Fuller Studies
"a bold, necessary, and highly valuable study ... Orthodox Radicals
is a highly engaging work that no student of the period should go
without reading very closely indeed." -- Pierre Le Duff, Journal of
British Studies
"This fascinating study in the spiritual and ecclesiastical
taxonomy of those typically called 'Particular Baptists' is well
worth your thoughtful consideration ... historians and others
wishing or needing to rethink their casual labelling will find this
a most helpful book. Baptists in particular will find much both to
instruct and to prompt re ection, not least because of the abiding
relevance of these questions to our own sense of identity and our
practice
in relation not only to others more of our own mind, but also to
brothers of differing persuasions." -- Jeremy Walker, The Banner of
Truth
"This is an important book, but not one I would recommend for
casual reading. Bingham's claims here are carefully and thoroughly
laid out. ... There are extensive notes and bibliography that
scholars will surely be debating for some time." -- Chuck Ivey,
Things Above Us
"Bingham's research will help students both situate individual
Baptist authors more accurately in this historical context and
place the movement as a whole more accurately in the context of
seventeenth-century British Reformed orthodox theology." -- Ryan M.
McGraw, Theology and History
"Bingham's book makes an important contribution to the wider
argument about the identity of early Particular Baptists and their
links with the Reformed movement more generally." -- Robert
Strivens, Evangelicals Now
"Bingham's argument is well-documented ... But Bingham's
theological acumen is also on display in this book. He grasps not
only the historical record but the soteriological, ecclesiological,
and sacramental issues at stake in these seventeenth-century
debates.This book is highly recommended..." -- R. Lucas Stamps, The
Centre for Baptist Renewal
"This study is important for many reasons. It broadens our
understanding of the bounds of toleration in Cromwellian and post-
Restoration England. It also challenges historians and theologians
to rethink how they apply the term "Reformed orthodox" in relation
to Baptist Congregationalists. ... Bingham's research will help
students both situate individual Baptist authors more accurately in
this historical context and place the movement as a whole more
accurately
in the context of seventeenth-century British Reformed orthodox
theology." -- Ryan M. McGraw, Theology & History
"This is an excellent, engaging, illuminating book. I warmly
commend it to all who are in any way interested in who Baptists are
and where they came from." -- Bobby Jamieson, 9Marks
"In Orthodox Radicals, Bingham offers a clear and compelling
reinterpretation of the early history of those came to be
identified as Particular Baptists (as distinguished from General
Baptists)." -- L.H. Hoyle, CHOICE
"'Baptist' is such a familiar label that we all think we know what
it means. This outstanding book shows that we don't. Bingham shows
that the mythology which has applied that label to the
mid-seventeenth century isn't just anachronistic; it has distorted
our entire understanding of the religious landscape of the era. If
you are interested in the history of radical religion, you can't
afford not to read this book."--Alec Ryrie, Professor of the
History of
Christianity, Durham University
"Historians have long recognised the problematic nature of
anachronistic denominational labels, but this book presses us to
think more deeply about religious identities in seventeenth-century
England. In a case study of the 'Particular Baptists,' Bingham
argues that they are better understood as 'baptistic
congregationalists.' His proposal demands careful consideration by
historians of the Baptists and the Congregationalists, as well as
by scholars working on
Independents and Cromwellians in the English Revolution."--John
Coffey, professor of Early Modern History, University of
Leicester
"Profoundly provocative, this new monograph by Matthew Bingham
challenges standard historiographical approaches to English Baptist
origins with verve and solid scholarly argumentation. His thesis,
if accepted, will demand nothing less than a substantial re-write
of the 'Baptist story' and rethinking of what being Baptist meant
in the early modern era. And to boot, it is a joy to read. Most
highly recommended!"--Michael A. G. Haykin, FRHistS, Professor of
Church
History, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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