“Communion with God”

Matt Pinson In our tradition, the phrase “communion with God” is very common, as it is in the wider Puritan and Reformed tradition out of which General/Free Will Baptists emerged. Our English General Baptist forefather Thomas Grantham was very fond of the term. In one place, for example,…

Were the General Baptists Biblicists?

Administrator Recently, Commission Chairman Matt Pinson contributed an article to The Lyceum on the English General Baptists entitled, “Were the General Baptists Biblicists?” The article can be read by clicking here or reading below. We also encourage readers to visit The Lyceum to learn more about their work. ____________________…

Symposium Recap: Jesse Owens on the English General Baptists

by Rodney Holloman Jesse Owens’ excellent presentation at the 2017 Symposium countered the “ahistorical” assertion that all seventeenth-century Arminians were rationalists. This seemingly unchallenged dogma is represented as he takes issue with (among others) Richard Muller and his book God, Creation, and Providence in the Thought of Jacob…

Thomas Grantham: An Influence on Wesley’s View of Predestination

by Matthew Pinson (This post first appeared on Dr. Pinson’s blog at matthewpinson.com) Recently a friend and former student, Jesse Owens (now a Ph.D. student in historical theology at Southern Seminary) told me about a statement Herbert McGonigle had made about Wesley “raising the ghosts” of John Goodwin…