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...
| Publié dans: | Baptist quarterly |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2016]
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| Dans: |
Baptist quarterly
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| Classifications IxTheo: | KAH Époque moderne KBF Îles britanniques KDG Église libre NBA Théologie dogmatique |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Matthew Caffyn
B John Parsons B General Baptists B Joseph Wright B confessional documents |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064 |