No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s

by Keith E. Durso

Book Overview

English and American Baptists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries lived in two worlds. In one world, established churches were the norm and persecution was the means by which such churches and the civil governments dealt with religious dissenters. Yet these Baptists also lived in another world in which God's kingdom ruled and the sword of the Spirit (the Bible), not the sword of Caesar, settled religious disputes. When their two worlds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881460966
• ISBN13: 9780881460964
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.9"