Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society now online

I was asked last year by Professor John Briggs, Chairman of the Baptist Historical Society, if I could assist them by digitising and hosting the Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society (1908-1921) and the Baptist Quarterly (1922-present). I quickly learned - through my contacts at the Baptist training colleges - that the Transactions represent a unique historical record valuable not just to Baptists, but to church historians, theologians and missiologists across the denominations. These old volumes are currently on restricted access in those few colleges that have paper copies.

The Baptist Quarterly will take me most of this year to complete, but the Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society are now available on-line. To further assist colleges I have provided a link at the top of the page to a compressed archive that contains all the PDF files and a separate table of contents (total file size around 65MB). These can be placed on College servers at no charge as the entire collection is now Public Domain.

Reformation & Revival Volume 13 now on-line

Four more complete issues now available on-line in PDF. Click here to visit the full listing.

Vox Evangelica Volume 23 now on-line

Volume 23 of Vox Evangelica is now available online in PDF:

Kwame Bediako, "Cry Jesus! Christian Theology and Presence in Modern Africa, (The Laing Lecture for 1993)," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 7-26.

Emmanuel Oladipo, "The Laing Lecture for 1993: First Response," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 27-28.

Peter Cotterell, "The Laing Lecture for 1993: Second Response," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 29-30.

Robert R. Cook, "The Art of God," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 31-38.

Peter Oakes, "Epictetus (and the New Testament)," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 39-56.

David F. Payne, "Apologetic Motifs in the Books of Samuel," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 57-66.
I found this the most interesting article in this volume from the perspective of a Bible student.

Ian. M. Randall, "Spiritual Renewal and Social Reform: Attempts to Develop Social Awareness in the Early Keswick Movement," Vox Evangelica 23 (1993): 67-86.
What was the attitude of early Keswick to social reform? Well, it can be summed up in the words of that great theologian the Rev A.W. Awdry: "It's not wrong... but we just don't do it"!

Geoffrey W. Bromiley on the Church Doctrine of Inspiration

The following article is now available as both iPaper and PDF:

Geoffrey W. Bromiley, "The Church Doctrine of Inspiration," Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.205-217.