Papers from a conference held in 1997 at Regent's Park College, Oxford.

Includes bibliograpical references and index.

From Helwys to Leland : Baptists and religious tolerance in England and America, 1612-1791 / John Coffey -- Controversy and communion : the limits of Baptist fellowship from Bunyan to Spurgeon / Timothy George -- Transatlantic relationships : the making of an international Baptist community / William H. Brackney -- "Days of Pentecostal overflowing" : Baptists and the shaping of Pentecostalism / Ian M. Randall -- Particular redemption in the writings of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) / Michael A.G. Haykin -- "The glory of the Lamb" : the Gaelic hymns of Peter Grant / Donald E. Meek -- English Baptists, Jamaican affairs and the nonconformist conscience : the campaign against Governor Eyre / Timothy Larsen -- Germany and Baptist expansion in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard V. Pierard -- Baptists in the twentieth-century tsarist empire and the Soviet Union / Maurice Dowling -- Italian Baptists since the Second World War : a tentative interpretation of their original experience / Paolo Spanu -- Patterns of development among Baptists in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea in the first fifty years since their respective beginnings / Tony Cupit -- The multiple conversions of Timothy Richard : a paradigm of missionary experience / Andrew Walls -- "The old religion and the new" : India and the making of T.R. Glover's The Jesus of history / Brian Stanley -- Old denomination, new identities : the Southern Baptist future / Bill J. Leonard -- The Baptist moment : twenty-first century opportunities / Nancy T. Ammerman.