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Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Identity in the English Revolution de Matthew C. Bingham

Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Identity in the English Revolution: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology

Autor Matthew C. Bingham
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2019

Nivelul de studiu vizat de această lucrare este cel de doctorat sau referință profesională pentru cercetătorii istoriei religioase. În Orthodox Radicals, Matthew C. Bingham propune o reevaluare provocatoare a originilor baptiste, demontând mitul unei identități confesionale bine articulate în timpul Revoluției Engleze. Putem afirma că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a plasa mișcarea nu ca pe un fenomen izolat, ci ca pe o componentă intrinsecă a mediului puritan radical care căuta o reformă continuă.

Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Bingham analizează modul în care respingerea botezului la vârsta infantilă a fost, inițial, doar un element dintr-un spectru mai larg de revizuiri doctrinare. Autorul critică tendința istoriografică de a proiecta categorii moderne asupra unui peisaj religios mult mai fluid. Această abordare amintește de temele explorate în Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England de Robert E. Stillman, unde este contestată identificarea identității religioase strict cu cea confesională. Totuși, în timp ce lucrarea lui Stillman se concentrează pe „creștinii fără nume”, Bingham rămâne ancorat în mediul specific al celor care vor deveni cunoscuți drept „Particular Baptists”, oferind o analiză mai granulată a proceselor de demarcație teologică.

Stilul este unul academic precis, axat pe lecturi atente ale textelor primare, evitând superlativele în favoarea unei argumentații structurate. Față de Pure Worship de Matthew Ward, care se concentrează pe dimensiunea liturgică a tradiției, Orthodox Radicals prioritizează construcția identității politice și teologice în contextul instabilității din secolul al XVII-lea. Este o contribuție esențială pentru Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, reușind să clarifice distincția dintre realitatea istorică a actorilor de atunci și etichetele impuse ulterior de istorici.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190912369
ISBN-10: 0190912367
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in Historical Theology

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Este o lectură necesară pentru istoricii și teologii interesați de secolul al XVII-lea englez. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care identitățile religioase se nasc din conflicte politice și teologice, nu din structuri prestabilite. Cartea oferă un argument solid împotriva anacronismului istoric, demonstrând cum o minoritate dinamică a influențat cursul reformei protestante globale prin simpla dorință de a duce puritanismul la concluziile sale logice.

Despre autor

Matthew C. Bingham este un istoric specializat în teologie istorică, recunoscut pentru analizele sale privind dezvoltarea protestantismului în perioada modernă timpurie. Lucrările sale se concentrează frecvent pe definirea categoriilor de analiză istorică, temă centrală și în volumul său anterior, On Being Reformed. În acea lucrare, Bingham a explorat dificultatea definirii identității reformate de-a lungul a cinci secole, o preocupare metodologică pe care o rafinează în Orthodox Radicals. Expertiza sa este valorificată aici pentru a deconecta etichetele denominaționale moderne de contextul radical al Revoluției Engleze, poziționându-l ca o voce critică în studiul nonconformismului englez.

Descriere

In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life. Today, Baptists have developed into one of the world's largest Protestant denominations. Despite this impressive transformation, those first English Baptists remain chronically misunderstood. In Orthodox Radicals, Matthew C. Bingham clarifies and analyzes the origins and identity of Baptists during the English Revolution, arguing that mid-seventeenth century Baptists did not, in fact, understand themselves to be a part of a larger, all-encompassing Baptist movement. Contrary to both the explicit statements of many historians and the tacit suggestion embedded in the very use of "Baptist" as an overarching historical category, the early modern men and women who rejected infant baptism would not have initially understood that single theological stance as being in itself constitutive of a new collective identity. Rather, the rejection of infant baptism was but one of a number of doctrinal revisions then taking place among English puritans eager to further their on-going project of godly reformation. Orthodox Radicals complicates our understanding of Baptist identity, setting the early English Baptists in the cultural, political, and theological context of the wider puritan milieu out of which they arose. The book also speaks to broader themes, including early modern debates on religious toleration, the mechanisms by which early modern actors established and defended their tenuous religious identities, and the perennial problem of anachronism in historical writing. Bingham also challenges the often too-hasty manner in which scholars have drawn lines of theological demarcation between early modern religious bodies, and reconsiders one of this period's most dynamic and influential religious minorities from a fresh and perhaps controversial perspective. By combining a provocative reinterpretation of Baptist identity with close readings of key theological and political texts, Orthodox Radicals offers the most original and stimulating analysis of mid-seventeenth-century Baptists in decades.

Recenzii

This provocative study will be of interest to those who research Baptist history or religion in early modern England.
This book rightly calls us to think more carefully, theologically, and contextually about religious groups of the revolution. It also proves how challenging that task can be.
Bingham's knowledge and pertinent use of both primary and secondary source material is impressive. In the space of 157 pages he includes 649 foot notes. He ties together sources and personal narrative in an artistic way care fully constructing his argument with literary grace.
a bold, necessary, and highly valuable study ... Orthodox Radicals is a highly engaging work that no student of the period should go without reading very closely indeed.
This fascinating study in the spiritual and ecclesiastical taxonomy of those typically called 'Particular Baptists' is well worth your thoughtful consideration ... historians and others wishing or needing to rethink their casual labelling will find this a most helpful book. Baptists in particular will find much both to instruct and to prompt re ection, not least because of the abiding relevance of these questions to our own sense of identity and our practice in relation not only to others more of our own mind, but also to brothers of differing persuasions.
This is an important book, but not one I would recommend for casual reading. Bingham's claims here are carefully and thoroughly laid out. ... There are extensive notes and bibliography that scholars will surely be debating for some time.
Bingham's research will help students both situate individual Baptist authors more accurately in this historical context and place the movement as a whole more accurately in the context of seventeenth-century British Reformed orthodox theology.
Bingham's book makes an important contribution to the wider argument about the identity of early Particular Baptists and their links with the Reformed movement more generally.
Bingham's argument is well-documented ... But Bingham's theological acumen is also on display in this book. He grasps not only the historical record but the soteriological, ecclesiological, and sacramental issues at stake in these seventeenth-century debates.This book is highly recommended...
This study is important for many reasons. It broadens our understanding of the bounds of toleration in Cromwellian and post- Restoration England. It also challenges historians and theologians to rethink how they apply the term "Reformed orthodox" in relation to Baptist Congregationalists. ... Bingham's research will help students both situate individual Baptist authors more accurately in this historical context and place the movement as a whole more accurately in the context of seventeenth-century British Reformed orthodox theology.
This is an excellent, engaging, illuminating book. I warmly commend it to all who are in any way interested in who Baptists are and where they came from.
In Orthodox Radicals, Bingham offers a clear and compelling reinterpretation of the early history of those came to be identified as Particular Baptists (as distinguished from General Baptists).

Notă biografică

Matthew Bingham is a lecturer in systematic theology and church history at Oak Hill College, London.