Heirs of the Reformation

“When W. H. Whitsitt published A Question in Baptist History (1896), the controversy over Baptist Successionism was already in full swing. … McGoldrick has produced an excellent revisitation of this question giving a theologically sound and historically adjudicated presentation of Baptist identity and origins.”

Dr. Tom Nettles

186 pages

Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II. What Is A Baptist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

III. The Montanists and Novatians: Baptistic Reformers or Schismatic Catholics? . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

IV. St. Patrick: A Baptist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

V. Who Were The Paulicians? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

VI. The Bogomils: Balkan Baptists? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

VII. A Parenthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

VIII. The Albigenses: More Than Heretics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

IX. What About The Waldenses? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

X. The Anabaptists: Whose Forefathers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

XI. Are Baptists Protestants? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

XII. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179