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To Follow the Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth

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  1. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
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    I posted this under books and here as it deals with Baptist history.

    For folks on the BB who are interested in history and especially Baptist history you might want to watch for the following book. It is to be published sometime in 2017 by Pickwick Publications.

    To Follow the Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth:
    The Ecclesial Polity of the English
    Calvinistic Baptists 1640–1660

    Ian Birch
     
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    Is this by Ian Birch who is at Scottish Baptist College? Can you tell us a little more about the book?

    Thanks.
     
  3. Crabtownboy

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    Yes it is by Ian Birch of the Scottish Bible College. It is the edited version of his PhD. thesis. I am indexing the book for him. He and I have a mutual friend and she gave him my name. I indexed her book as well. I have not met him, except by e-mail but hope I can if I have the opportunity to visit Scotland again.

    Here is the table of contents:

    1. “Casting Balls of Wildfire into the bosom of the Church”: The Emergence of English Particular Baptist Churches to 1660 | 1
    1.1. From Jacob to Jessey
    1.2 Particular Baptist Expansion, 1644–1660
    1.2.1. Publishing
    1.2.2. Preaching
    1.2.3. Disputations
    1.2.4. M issionary Evangelism
    Summary
    2. “A True Visible Church of Christ”: The Contours of Calvinistic Baptist Ecclesiology | 32
    2.1 The Rule of Christ
    2.2 A Believer’s Church
    2.3 B aptism, Infant Baptism, and Church Membership
    2.4 A Gathered Church
    2.5 A Visible Church
    2.6 A Separate Church
    Summary
    viii Contents
    3. “To follow the Lambe wheresoever he goeth”: The Church of King Jesus | 65
    3.1. The Forerunner, Henry Jacob
    3.2. “Christology” in Early Particular Baptist Confessions
    3.3. Munus Triplex Christi and Ecclesiology in Thomas Collier
    3.3.1. Collier on Christ’s Priesthood
    3.3.2. Collier on Christ as Prophet
    3.3.3. Collier on Christ’s Kingship
    Summary
    4. “A Holy and Orderly Communion”: Theology and Practice of Discipline among Early Particular Baptists | 96
    4.1 The Purity of the Saints in Particular Baptist Confessions
    4.2 Church Discipline in Hermeneutical Perspective
    4.3 Church Discipline in Early Particular Baptist Records
    4.3.1. Occasions of Discipline in Baptist Records
    4.3.2. Pastoral Procedure in Discipline
    4.4 Theology of Discipline among Particular Baptists
    4.4.1. The Authority of the Church
    4.4.2. The Glory of Christ
    4.4.3. Purity of the Body of Christ
    Summary
    5. “An Intolerable Usurpation”: Theology and Practice of Ministry among Early Particular Baptists | 129
    5.1 The Choosing of “Meet Persons”: Baptist Lay Ministry
    5.2 Offices of Ministry in Particular Baptist Churches
    5.3 The Calling of Ministers in Baptist Congregations
    5.4 Ordination among Early Calvinistic Baptists
    Summary
    Contents ix
    6. “The Counsel and Help of One Another”: Independency and Interdependency: Particular Baptists in Association | 161
    6.1 The Origins of Particular Baptist Associations to 1660
    6.1.1 The Origins of Associations in the Association Records of
    the English Particular Baptists
    6.2 Theology of Particular Baptist Associations
    6.3 Associational Authority and Local Ecclesiology
    Summary
    Conclusions | 192
    Bibliography | 207
     
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    Thanks for this information on the author and the book.

    My sympathies! :eek:
     
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    :)

    I am one of those few people who like indexing ... been freelance indexing over 30 years. I have a 2000+ page medical book coming in February or March. I am doing this for Ian more as a favor. Theology is not my field of expertise, but this being historical it isn't that hard to compile the index.

    As long as I can have
    :Coffee in my mug I'm all right.

    Do you know Ian? I know the assistant principal well and consider her a good friend. She was a lecturer at IBTS in Prague and earned her PhD there. She is brilliant. Her PhD thesis was on the problems single women have in churches, especially in Lithuania, her home country. It has been published as a book and is entitled: Involuntarily Free Or Voluntarily Bound: Singleness in the Baptistic Churches of Post-communist Europe
     
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    No, I don't know Ian Birch. I've only seen the name in connection with the Scottish Bible College and put the two together.

    I've indexed a couple of my books and didn't find it particularly pleasant. Since you do that freelance, I suppose you might have a program that you use for the purpose?
     
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