Sbht: Edification And Beauty
Edification and Beauty describes the practical application of confessional theological principles among English Particular Baptists at the close of the seventeenth century. It examines the theological summary of their views as contained in the Second London Confession (1677/89), fleshed out in various published works, and recorded in manuscript church books. This unique work demonstrates that confessional subscription was taken seriously and practiced carefully within the Particular Baptist churches.
James Renihan
James M. Renihan (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Dean and Professor of Historical Theology at the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, California. He has served in the pastoral ministry at churches in Massachusetts and New York, and is the author of a variety of articles published in American Baptist Quarterly, The Banner of Truth, Evangelical Times, Reformed Baptist Theological Review, Baptist Review of Theology, The Gospel Witness and others.
He is editor of Daily Treasure: 366 Daily Readings from the Treasury of David; Denominations or Associations: Essays on Reformed Baptist Associations; and Covenant Theology from Adam to Christ. His doctoral dissertation will soon be published by Paternoster Press under the title: Edification and Beauty: The Practical Ecclesiology of the English Particular Baptists, 1675-1705.