No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700sMany early Baptists who were imprisoned in England and in the American colonies did not remain silent, for they continued to write letters, poems, and books. No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s ? 1700s recounts the story of several Baptists who refused to yield to political and ecclesiastical pressures to conform. |
Contents
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To Church or to Prison | 24 |
Soldiers for Christ and for Parliament | 49 |
Birds in a Cage | 75 |
No Armor for the Back | 120 |
Prison Poets | 143 |
An Unforgettable Whipping | 190 |
Prison Pulpits | 222 |
Living in Two Worlds | 252 |
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No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s Keith E. Durso No preview available - 2007 |
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