RT Article
T1 General Baptist ‘Primitivism’, the Radical Reformation, and Matthew Caffyn: A Response to Kegan A. Chandler
JF Journal of European Baptist Studies
VO 21
IS 1
SP 123
OP 139
A1 Holmes, Stephen R.
LA English
PB International Baptist Theological Study Centre
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1762347075
AB Kegan A. Chandler recently argued that the Anabaptist movement was in part defined by an acceptance of anti-Trinitarianism, which heritage became a part of General Baptist life from the beginning; on this basis he locates Matthew Caffyn as an authentic representative of the General Baptist movement. I argue that Chandler’s historical reconstruction of the Radical Reformation is flawed, being based on some errors of fact and some misreadings, and that most Anabaptists, and all early General Baptists, were unreflectively orthodox in their Trinitarianism. I suggest however that the case of Caffyn suggests both a willingness on the part of the denomination to regard orthopraxy as important alongside orthodoxy, and a degree of suspicion of non-biblical standards of orthodoxy.
K1 Christology
K1 General Baptists
K1 Matthew Caffyn
K1 Trinity
DO 10.25782/jebs.v21i1.701