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Table of Contents 1. Who are the Baptists? Beginnings • The radical reformation: anabaptists and others • The English Puritan and Separatist movements • Amsterdam 1609 • General and Particular Baptists in the C17th • Baptists in the Evangelical Revivals 2. Who are the Baptists today? • The later development of British Baptist life • A brief history of Baptists in America • Oncken and European Baptist life • Baptists in the majority world • Baptists and 'baptistic' churches 3. The Baptist vision of the church • Believers' baptism • The local church at the heart of God's purpose (including anti-missions movements) • Congregational church government • The independence and interdependence of local congregations • The centrality of preaching and the place of the Lord’s Supper • Charismatic ecclesiology • Baptist primitivism 4. Christ is Lord, and the believer is free • Thomas Helwys and the plea for religious liberty • The Lordship of Christ as the foundation of religious liberty • Liberty and believers' baptism: a natural match • 'Soul competency': a different vision of liberty • E.Y. Mullens and the origin of the concept • Recent expressions of soul competency • Politics and religious liberty 5. God's desire to save • 'Every Baptist a missionary': Ocken and the wider missionary vision • Mission as a mark of the church • Hypercalvinism and the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society • God's covenant of salvation • Paul Fiddes: the recovery and development of the covenant theme in Baptist theology 6. The high calling of the Christian • 'Congregations of visible saints' • The practice of church discipline • Walking according to Christ’s rule: Baptist engagements with Scripture • Christian Ethics in Baptist perspective • Holiness beyond the congregation: the ‘social gospel’ and peacemaking. 7. Conclusion: a vision of Baptist theology