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Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament. What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church...

o include congregationalist witness in the Reformation period as well as congregationalism among the most significant body of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baptists, the Particular Baptists. Essential to the Particular Baptist vision in these two centuries was a view of church government that they shared with their Congregationalist brethren, a view that they believed best reflected the scriptural teaching.
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