Description
About the Author
Baird Tipson is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College. After seventeen years as a faculty member, Tipson (AB Princeton University, PhD Yale University) became Provost of Gettysburg College (1987-1995), President of Wittenberg University (1995-2004) and President of Washington College (2004-2010). A student of Sydney Ahlstrom, he specializes in the European Reformation and the early history of Religion in America. He is the author of Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone and Their Terrifying God.
Reviews
Baird offers a strong logic-driven argument...I think the book [is] excellent for an academic classroom discussion. * Rick Kennedy, Church History *
an excellent introduction to the theological ideas that underpinned eighteenth-century evangelicalism * Simon Lewis, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society *
Tipson's study is creatively presented, well written, and persuasively argued...Tipson's study deserves attention by those looking to connect the world of ideas with the lived experiences of early modern subjects. * Ryan Shelton, Queen's University Belfast, Journal of the Northern Renaissance *
At a time when scholars are interrogating, with fascinating results, the nature and features of an early phase of modern evangelicalism, Baird Tipson's work on Inward Baptism is a welcome addition. He shows how, in the two-and-a-half-centuries and more after the beginning of the Reformation, Protestant theologians shifted from an emphasis on sacramental participation as a basis for assurance of salvation to a subjective mode, from an external to an internal testimony of grace. * Kenneth Minkema, Executive Editor, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University *
Baird Tipson's new book offers a thorough investigation and lucid explanation of some of the most complex debates in Christian theology, those centering on how a person is saved and how she can be assured of that justification. He takes the reader on a journey from the sacerdotal approach of medieval Catholicism through to the experience of a new birth experienced by the followers of eighteenth-century revivalists such as John Wesley and George Whitefield. * Francis J. Bremer, author of One Small Candle: The Story of the Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England *
By the early seventeenth century, an understanding of religion as a matter of interior experience was coming to the fore in Reformed and Puritan circles. Baird Tipson revisits this process and provides a fresh explanation of how it arose, an explanation that takes us back to Martin Luther. Always a superb historian of doctrine, Tipson is at his lucid best in this important book. * David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School *
Inward Baptism is a worthwhile and well-supported work that adds to the conversations around the history of theology. * Zachariah S. Motts, Iowa State University, USA *
Inward Baptism would be useful in classes on historical theology or religious history and should be read by anyone interested in the history of Protestant doctrine. * Paul J. Gutacker, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197511473
Author Baird Tipson
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 485g
Dimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 14mm