The Centre for Baptist Studies produces an exciting variety of publications in Baptist history and Baptist theology, as well as a series of Baptist Festschrifts. In addition, the Centre publishes the annual Whitley lecture, and has recently begun a new series of congregational resources. Most of these volumes are available to order on demand from the links where shown below.
Congregational Resources
This new series of books is designed to support reflective practice for Baptist ministers and those in their congregations with the purpose of helping them in worship, discipleship and mission.
Intercultural Preaching
edited by Anthony Reddie and Seidel Boanerges with Pamela Searle (2021)
Voicing New Questions for Baptist Identity
edited by Eleasah P. Louis and Andy Goodliff (2023)
Whitley Lectures
The Whitley Lecture was first established in 1949 in honour of W. T. Whitley (1861-1947). The annual lecture is designed as an encouragement to research and writing by Baptist scholars, and to enable the results of their work to be published. Since 2011 the Centre for Baptist Studies has been responsible for this publication on behalf of the Whitley Committee.
Holistic Apologetics: Re-Imagining Apologetics for the 21st Century
(2025), Seidel Abel Boanerges
Dark Weeping and Light Sleeping: Whiteness as a Doctrine of De-Formation
(2024), Tim Judson
Learning from Young People’s Experiences of Communion
(2023), Linda Hopkins
The Ruling Christ and the Witnessing Church: Towards a Baptist Political Theology
(2022), Andy Goodliff
Does This Cross Have Disabled Access?
(2021), David McLachlan
Finding a Friend: The Baptist Encounter with Judaism
(2020), Robert Parkinson
Theology and Culture: An African Perspective
(2019), Joe Kapolyo
The Pioneering Evangelicalism of Dan Taylor
(2017), Richard T. Pollard
Church Without Walls: Post-Soviet Baptists after the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14
(2016), Joshua M Searle
What is Biblical Ministry?
(2015), Ed Kaneen
Always on the way and in the fray: Reading the Bible as Baptists
(2014), Helen J. Dare
Answering Mendel’s Dwarf: Thinking Theologically about Human Genetic Selection
(2013), Michael J. Peat
Religious Liberty in Continental Europe: Campaigning by British Baptists, 1840s to 1930s
(2012), Ian M. Randall
Honouring Baptist Scholars
The Centre has been responsible for publishing several festschrifts in honour of Baptist scholars and theologians. In addition to highlighting the contributions these people have made to Baptist life, the books showcase contemporary Baptist thought covering a wide range of issues both ecclesial and public.
Attending the Margins: Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore
edited by Helen Paynter and Peter Hatton (2022)
Being Attentive: Essays in Practical Theology in Honour of Rob Ellis
edited by Anthony Clarke (2021)
Reconciling Rites: Essays in Honour of Myra N. Blyth
edited by Andy Goodliff, Anthony Clarke and Beth Allison-Glenny (2020)
For the Sake of the Church: Essays in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes
edited by Anthony Clarke (2014)
Prayers of the People (In honour of John Weaver)
edited by Karen E Smith & Simon P. Woodman (2013)
Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas
edited by Stephen Finamore & John Weaver (2012)
Questions of Identity: Essays in Honour of Brian Haymes
edited by Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne (2011)
Resourcing Baptist History
This series offers studies which explore the riches of seventeenth century primary sources, and do so in a way that is helpful to the efforts of other scholars in the field. The focus is on hitherto unpublished primary sources, particularly autograph letters and manuscripts from the period.
William Kiffen and His World
William Kiffen and His World, Part 1
(2010), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 2
(2012), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 3
(2013), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 4
(2015), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 5
(2016), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 6
(2017), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 7
(2020), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 8
(2022), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 9
(2024), L.J. Kreitzer
William Kiffen and His World, Part 10
(2026), L.J. Kreitzer
Other Baptist History Publications
Thomas Helwys and His World, Part 1
(2019), L.J. Kreitzer
The Petty France Church, Part 1
(2019), S.D. Renihan
The Petty France Church, Part 2
(2022), S.D. Renihan
The Longworth Churchbook
(2020), L. J. Kreitzer
Studies in Baptist History and Thought
From 2010 the Centre has been publishing studies of Baptist history and thought. These include monographs, dissertations, and papers from one-day conferences the Centre has organised.
Stand-alone Monographs
London Calvinistic Baptists 1689–1727: Tensions within a Dissenting Community under Toleration
by Murdina M. MacDonald (2022)
Liturgy and Identity: London Baptists and the Hymn-Singing Controversy
by Matthew Stanton (2022)
The Caffynite Controversy
by Clint C. Bass (2020)
Ministry, Sacrament and Representation: Ministry and Ordination in Contemporary Baptist Theology, and the Rise of Sacramentalism by Paul W. Goodliff (2010)
Edited Volumes from CBS Conferences
Trinity, Creed and Confusion: The Salters’ Hall debates of 1719
edited by Stephen Copson (2020)
Peoples of God: Baptists and Jews over Four Centuries
edited by John H. Y. Briggs & Paul S. Fiddes (2019)
The Fourth Strand of the Reformation
edited by Paul S. Fiddes (2018)
‘A World Order of Love’ Baptists and the Peace Movements of 1914
edited by Paul S. Fiddes (2017)
Step into your Place: The First World War and Baptist Life & Thought
edited by Larry J Kreitzer (2014)
Exploring Baptists Origins
edited by Anthony R. Cross and Nicholas J. Wood (2010)
Baptists and the World: Renewing the Vision.
Papers from the Baptist Historical Society Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008 edited by John H. Y. Briggs and Anthony R. Cross
Occasional Papers
‘A Woman Shall Do It’: Edith Gates, Neglected Pioneer
(2023), Chris Vokes
New Light on the Early Years of Thomas Helwys
(2018), Larry J. Kreitzer
John Locke’s ‘Letters of Gold’
(2017), Malcolm B. Yarnell III
Covenant and Church for Rough Sleepers
(2017), Daniel Sutcliffe-Pratt
Text and Story: Prophets for Their Time and Ours
(2014) by Gale Richards
Kissing the Book: The Story of Sam Sharpe as Revealed in the Records of the National Archives at Kew
(2013) by Larry J. Kreitzer
Samuel Sharpe and the Meaning of Freedom
(2012), Horace O. Russell
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