A Note Concerning the Text, Editions, and Authorship of The 1660 Standard Confession of the General Baptists
The, hitherto anonymous, Confession prepared by a General Baptist assembly in London in 1660 became the Standard Confession' of the denomination following its adoption at the General Assembly of 1663; re-issued by Thomas Grantham in 1678, and re-affirmed repeatedly by the General Assembly thro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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| In: |
Baptist quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 2-7 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDG Free church NBA Dogmatics |
| Further subjects: | B
Matthew Caffyn
B John Parsons B General Baptists B Joseph Wright B confessional documents |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | The, hitherto anonymous, Confession prepared by a General Baptist assembly in London in 1660 became the Standard Confession' of the denomination following its adoption at the General Assembly of 1663; re-issued by Thomas Grantham in 1678, and re-affirmed repeatedly by the General Assembly through the 1690s, it is unquestionably the most significant symbolic document of the English General Baptists. I argue on the basis of textual evidence that the standard editorial history is wrong: there were two editions in 1660, but no new edition in 1663. I further argue that there is good reason to assume that the authors of the Confession were Matthew Caffyn, Joseph Wright, and John Parsons, senior. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-7731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064 |
