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Wright, Stephen, The Early English Baptists, 1603-1649 ( Woodbridge, Su ff olk: Boydell Press, 2006), x + 278 pp., £50.00, ISBN 1 84383 195 3. The Baptists have not attracted the degree of scholarly attention recently accorded to other seventeenth-century English nonconformist groups. Even the tiny Family of Love has been studied thoroughly by Christopher Marsh, while the early Quakers have been examined in great detail by Kate Peters. A re-examination of the Baptists has been long overdue. Stephen Wright’s book on The Early English Baptists, 1603-1649, does much to redress the balance. The fi rst problem that faces the historian of the Baptists is de fi ning the subject. Who was a Baptist? Was it someone who believed in adult baptism and practiced it? Or was it someone who belonged to a Baptist church? The two are by no means synonymous, as demonstrated by the long-running and ultimately sterile debate over whether John Bunyan was a Baptist. The usual approach is for historians to de fi ne a Baptist as someone who held Baptist beliefs. Thus Bunyan could be said to be one even though he led a mixed congregation of Baptists and Inde- pendents. The cost
Journal of Early Modern History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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