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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發表在:Baptist quarterly
主要作者: Holmes, Stephen R. (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2016]
In: Baptist quarterly
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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總結: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.
ISSN:2056-7731
Contains:Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064