Baptist Studies Online is a good resource for anyone interested in Baptist history. The site is run by some church history professors–Keith Harper and Nathan Finn–at Southeastern Seminary. It went up about two years ago, and was given a face lift a few weeks ago. Check it out. They have a great page of links for Baptist history. The best part of the site is The Baptist Studies Journal. This is a new, entirely online, peer-reviewed journal, devoted entirely to Baptist history.
The newest volume just went up last week.
See my review of James J. Thompson’s 1982 work, Tried as by Fire: Southern Baptists and the Religious Controversies of the 1920s. This is the only book that has dealt in depth with fundamentalist/modernist related controversies in the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1920s. One of this journal’s distinctives is that they review important Baptist books from past decades, as well as new ones. This is a good feature, I think, especially considering the paucity of good books written on Baptist history each year.
I also reviewed a volume edited by Larry McSwain, Twentieth-Century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethics.
January 15, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Thanks for the link to the site. We’re revamping our Membership Class, adding a robust section on Baptist history.