MB6/726 - Baptist Churches

Baptist Churches

This course has two foci: Baptist history and Baptist principles. It has been designed from the perspective of Baptist Churches in New Zealand . It will therefore focus particularly on the history of the Baptist Churches in England , the United States of America and New Zealand . Out of this study and in the light of Scripture and the modern context will come an assessment of appropriate Baptist identity and distinctives today. Topics will be selected from the following: the Anabaptists, English Baptists from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Baptist history in America , New Zealand Baptist history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, history of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society, Baptist principles.

Prerequisite: MB526

Restriction: MB726 (offered at level 6 and 7)

Lecture outline:

· Introduction

· Anabaptist beginnings

· English Baptists 1609-c.1750

· English Baptists c.1750 to the present

· Baptists in America : Beginnings and American Baptist history to the present

· Southern Baptist history from 1845 to the present

· 19^th century New Zealand Baptist history

· 20^th century New Zealand Baptist history

· New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society 1885 to the present

· New Zealand Baptists and social issues

· Baptist principles

- Baptist principles