Bristol Baptist College Research Articles

James Culross, C.H. Spurgeon and the Crisis of British Baptist Confessionalism, 1887–8: Part II, the Controversy

ABSTRACT Initially drawn to this subject because Culross wrote a nineteenth-century biography on John Ryland Jr. (1753–1825) who was the subject of my PhD, I encountered letters held at Bristol Baptist College noting the friendship between James Culross and C.H. Spurgeon and others during the Downgrade Controversy. This article seeks to convey the contents of their correspondence during this controversy and probe the essence of their subtly divergent views of Baptist confessionalism in an attempt to gain a more complete understanding of what was a complex controversy.

James Culross, C.H. Spurgeon and the Crisis of British Baptist Confessionalism, 1887–8: Part I, the Letters

ABSTRACT Initially drawn to this subject because Culross wrote a nineteenth-century biography on John Ryland Jr. (1753–1825) who was the subject of my PhD, I encountered letters held at Bristol Baptist College noting the friendship between James Culross and C.H. Spurgeon, along with their correspondence with others, during the Downgrade Controversy. This two part publication seeks to convey the central contents of their correspondence during this controversy, and probe the essence of their subtly divergent views of Baptist confessionalism in an attempt to gain a more complete understanding of what was a complex controversy.

The Significance of Bristol Baptist College

ABSTRACT Bristol Baptist College, founded in 1720 on the basis of a deed of gift of 1679, is the oldest Baptist theological college in the world. It absorbed the influence of the Enlightenment and was dedicated to growth through the energetic preaching of the gospel. The college served as an international agency and at home became a pillar of the Baptist establishment. During the first half of the twentieth century it functioned as a Free Church institution and in the second half became more broadly ecumenical. It adapted to the needs of the twenty-first century.

‘Able and Evangelical Ministers’: The Beginnings of Ministerial Formation at Bristol Baptist College

This article re-tells the story of the origins of ministerial formation in Bristol Baptist College, and seeks to highlight what has become popularly known as the ‘Bristol tradition’. Special attention is given to some of the European Baptists who came to Bristol to study.

“A little God whom they had just sent over”: Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama and the Museum of the Bristol Baptist College

The Baptist Library here—I have got access to, and the privilege of carrying home its books. This is of importance to me. The books relating to Oriental matters are many and good. Do you know that ...

BERNARD FOSKETT AND ABINGDON, 1743-5

A collection of 25 letters to Bernard Foskett, dated between 1742 and 1757, has come to light, following the recent move of Bristol Baptist College to a new site in the city. The letters come from students, ministers and churches in the West of England and Ireland.

Good News from Stuttgart:

The Bibelsammlung in the Wiirttembergische Landesbibliothek has been renowned for its riches since its foundation in the eighteenth century. The British Museum Library under Anthony Panizzi looked enviously at Stuttgart's holdings and set out to build a Bible collection worthy of the national library. However, it was not until 1994 that the British Library set the jewel in its collections of early English Bibles with the acquisition of the Bristol Baptist College copy of the first complete printing ofTyndale's translation of the New Testament. The growth of the Bibelsammlung has continued, albeit at a more modest pace, during this period. Most recently it has been engaged in a project to re-catalogue and computerize records for its collection of early English Bibles and in the process has discovered a jewel that has lain without recognition for some two hundred years: a perfect copy of the 1526 Tyndale New Testament. The history of the British Library copy is well documented back to its identification in the 1740s; before that nothing is known of its provenance. The copy found in Stuttgart has a longer, more complex history, which goes far to explain why it had not previously been reported. Its first recorded (and probably first) owner was the Elector Ottheinrich (Otto Heinrich, 15°2-1559) of the Palatinate. A humanist who converted to Protestantism, Ottheinrich helped found the library at Heidelberg, which would grow to become the Bibliotheca Palatina. As spoils from the Thirty Years' War, the Palatina was seized in 1623,

What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Keith W. Clements. Bristol, England: Bristol Baptist College, 1990. vii + 184 pp. £7.95; $14.00 paper.

What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Keith W. Clements. Bristol, England: Bristol Baptist College, 1990. vii + 184 pp. £7.95; $14.00 paper.

What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Keith W. Clements. Bristol, England: Bristol Baptist College, 1990. vii + 184 pp. £7.95; $14.00 paper.

What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Keith W. Clements. Bristol, England: Bristol Baptist College, 1990. vii + 184 pp. £7.95; $14.00 paper.

What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Keith W. Clements. Bristol, England: Bristol Baptist College, 1990, 184 pp. n.p.

Journal Article What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Keith W. Clements. Bristol, England: Bristol Baptist College, 1990, 184 pp. n.p. Get access F. Burton Nelson F. Burton Nelson North Park Theological SeminaryChicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 33, Issue 4, Autumn 1991, Page 818, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/33.4.818 Published: 01 October 1991

Book Review : What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Keith W. Clements. Bristol Baptist College, 1990. vii + 184 pp. £7.95

Book Review : What Freedom? The Persistent Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Keith W. Clements. Bristol Baptist College, 1990. vii + 184 pp. £7.95

Reviews

Otto Neugebauer: Ethiopic Astronomy and Computus.Robert Banks: Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in their Historical Setting.R. N. Swanson: Universities, Academics and the Great Schism.Patrick Collinson: Archbishop Grindal, 1519‐1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church.Phyllis Mack Crew: Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544–1569.Robert L. Nichols and Theofanis George Stavrou (eds): Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime.William J. Callahan and David Higgs (eds): Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the Eighteenth Century.Norman S. Moon: Education for Ministry: Bristol Baptist College 1679–1979.Harry W. Paul: The Edge of Contingency: French Catholic Reaction to Scientific Change from Darwin to Duhem.Allan M. Grocott: Convicts, Clergymen and Churches: Attitudes of Convicts and Ex‐Convicts Towards the Churches and Clergy in New South Wales from 1788 to 1851.Ralph M. Wiltgen: The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in OceaniaDavid Wetherell: Reluctant Mission: The Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea, 1891–1942.

Education for Ministry: Bristol Baptist College, 1679–1979. By Norman S. Moon. Pp. x + 150 + 15 illus. Bristol: Bristol Baptist College, 1979. £3.60

Education for Ministry: Bristol Baptist College, 1679–1979. By Norman S. Moon. Pp. x + 150 + 15 illus. Bristol: Bristol Baptist College, 1979. £3.60

Bristol Baptist College and the Church’s Hymnody

Bristol Baptist College and the Church’s Hymnody

Bristol Baptist College—the 250th Anniversary

Bristol Baptist College—the 250th Anniversary