TY - BOOK AU - Lumpkin,William Latane AU - Leonard,Bill AU - TI - Baptist confessions of faith SN - 9780817016951 AV - BX6335.L581.B378 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Valley Forge, Pennsylvania PB - Judson Press KW - Baptists KW - Creeds N1 - 2; Backgrounds of the Baptist movement --; Anabaptist confessions --; Pioneer English Separatist-Baptist confessions --; Early English Baptist associational confessions --; English Baptist general confessions --; American Baptist confessions --; Confessions of other nationalities --; Twenty-first century confessions; 2 N2 - Originally published in 1959, updated in 1969, and revised again in 2011, Baptist Confessions of Faith contains every important Baptist confession of faith from the forerunners in the early seventeenth century through the 2000 revision of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Baptist Faith and Message. The newly expanded text encompasses contemporary statements and confessions from: •Mexican Baptist Convention •National Baptist Convention of America, Incorporated •Cooperative Baptist Fellowship •Alliance of Baptists •Primitive Baptists •American Baptist Churches USA •Baptist World Alliance This comprehensive resource also provides confessions of other nationalities, originally including German, Swedish, French, Canadian, and Russian, and newly updated with international confessions from: •Baptist Unions of Nigeria and Southern Africa •Statements of Faith from the Baptist Theological Seminaries in Beirut, Lebanon, in Malaysia, and in Hong Kong •Declaration of Faith from the Japan Baptist Union. Each statement and confession is reevaluated in light of contemporary research and related to Christian life today ER -