Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Baptist Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Laura Ormiston Chant | Sellcuts' Manager cannot be isolated from Chant's then-still-notorious attack on the Empire Theatre
, as well as her belief in temperance. From Mora's narrative to the idealized Palace of Amusements that reflects Chant's earlier writings... |
Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Barker | Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship, Barker, Mary Anne. A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa. Macmillan, 1877. 196 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | AB
chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists
. Her family belonged to the Church of England
(though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself). |
Cultural formation | Susanna Watts | Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland
, SW
was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters
. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004. 39 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | She attended the Baptist
Meeting at Tilehouse Street in Hitchin, where the minister was John Wilson
, and to which she made a donation of two pounds fifteen shillings for building in 1692. Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33. 30 |
Cultural formation | Rebecca Travers | She was originally a Baptist
and was converted to Quakerism
by James Nayler
. She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox
. RT
organised the first women's... |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Anna Trapnel | She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter
when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist
congregation of John Simpson
. Later she moved to the sect of... |
Cultural formation | Jean Binta Breeze | JBB
is a Jamaican of black African descent and of the professional class. (She also has white forebears, a fact which does not please her.) Breeze, Jean Binta. The Fifth Figure. Bloodaxe Books, 2006. Breeze 30 |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | While living in Silchar, she studied Christianity under the Baptist
missionary Isaac Allen
, much to her husband's disapproval. As a widow she carried these studies further. Burton, Antoinette. At the Heart of the Empire. University of California Press, 1998. 80 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hooton | Elizabeth was born to a Baptist
family, and was very active within the movement. She was already an established preacher well before she became perhaps the first person to join George Fox
in the embryonic... |
Timeline
By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...
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By May 1619
The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed the doctrine of total human depravity, setting it at the head of their articles of doctrine.
Synod of Dort. http://www.ccel.org/creeds/canons-of-dort.html.
Spring-summer 1647: A London Baptist girl in her teens, Sarah...
Women writers item
Spring-summer 1647
A LondonBaptist
girl in her teens, Sarah Wight
, fell into a months-long trance, the climax of four years of spiritual turmoil about which she later published a pamphlet.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
January 1654: The radical Baptist/Fifth Monarchist Vavasor...
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January 1654
The radical Baptist
/Fifth MonarchistVavasor Powell
was tried by the Council of State
at Whitehall, London.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
73
Probably 1659: Margaret Abbott, a convert from the Church...
Women writers item
Probably 1659
Margaret Abbott
, a convert from the Church of England
to the Baptists
, published with her name her only text, A Testimony against the False Teachers of this Generation.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...
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27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the Baptist
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
1925: The Baptist Church officially recognised...
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1925
The Baptist Church
officially recognised women pastors.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
511
1957: The Baptist Church allowed women pastors...
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1957
The Baptist Church
allowed women pastors to use the title of minister.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
511
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