Sean the Baptist

I know, I know...It's been ages since I last posted.  The reason is the usual combination of travel, meetings, various work commitments etc.  But now that Holy Week has arrived a little bit of white space appears in the diary and so hopefully I will be able to catch up on some blogging.  As a starter, my latest issue of the Baptist Quarterly arrived this morning and prompted me to draw attention to the important work being done by Stephen Wright in early Baptist history.  In several articles and now a major book (reviewed in the BQ) Wright offers a more nuanced, complex and thus probably more accurate account of the emergence of the General and Particular Baptist traditions in the early 17th century.  Here are the bibliographic details:

WRIGHT, STEPHEN, 'Baptist Alignments and the Restoration of Immersion, 1638-44, Part 1', BQ, 40 (2004), 261-283.
---, 'Baptist Alignments and the Restoration of Immersion, 1638-44, Part 2', BQ, 40 (2004), 346-368.
---, 'Edward Barber (c.1595-1663) and His Friends: Part 1', BQ, 41 (2006), 355-370.
---, The Early English Baptists (1603-1649) (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2006).

The book costs £50, although there is a special discount if you can get a copy of the Baptist Quarterly and get the details.