The Baptists’ Bible: Luke and Acts is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project intended to recover Baptist interpretations of Scripture over the past four centuries. In the Baptists’ Bible project, we offer a sample catalogue of Baptist interpretations from over our four hundred year history. We focus on Luke and Acts as the textual laboratory for this experiment. During the last decades of the twentieth century, Baptists have been involved in what has called “Baptist Battles,” much of it related to their views on the Bible. The study will illustrate the diversity of Baptist responses to the text of scripture and the various hermeneutical approaches in their confessions, sermons, and other documents that have characterized Baptist groups and individuals from the 17th century to the present. Recovering these voices from the past as well as giving a place at the table to contemporary Baptists too often excluded from discussion, we hope to contribute to articulation of Baptist identity(ies) and tradition(s). We believe that insights into the nature of the Baptists’ Bible will inform the unending quest for the nature of Baptist identity as it was and as it might become.
| Image | Title | Year | Type | Contributor(s) | Other Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Luke Among Baptists" | 2006 | Journal Article |
Mikeal Parsons |
Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2006, pages 137-154 | |
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The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation | 2009 | Book |
Mikeal Parsons |
Other co-editors include: Beth Allison Barr, Bill J. Leonard, and C. Douglas Weaver |