Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology, and the Arts in Honour of Ruth M. B. Gouldbourne - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1532677065 ISBN 13: 9781532677069

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2021

Synopsis

This volume celebrates the ministry and theological contribution of Dr. Ruth Gouldbourne, one of the foremost Baptist and Free Church women ministers and scholars in Britain and Europe. Following studies at St Andrews University, and King's College London, and ministerial training at Spurgeon's College, she served at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, the Free Church Bunyan Meeting, Bedford, and had been a Tutor, after which she returned to the local pastorate at Bloomsbury then Grove Lane Baptist Church, Cheadle. Her doctorate explores gender and theology in the writings of the radical reformer, Caspar Schwenckfeld, and she has recently earned her MA in Shakespearean Studies. She has served the Baptist Union on the Baptist Women in Ministry and Training group, the Covenant 2000 Committee, the Working Groups on Membership, and Superintendency, as well as the Baptist Historical Society. Internationally, she chaired the Academic Board of the International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTSC), and its the Board of Trustees, and her ecumenical commitment has included sitting on the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission, and serving Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. An Associate Fellow of Spurgeon's College, she is also Senior Research Fellow of IBTSC Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow of Bristol Baptist College.

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About the Authors

Brian Haymes is a Baptist Minister, ordained in 1965, served in two British Baptist Colleges and local pastorates, the last being Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London. Anthony R. Cross is an Adjunct Supervisor, The International Baptist Theological Study Centre, Amsterdam.

Brian Haymes was Principal of Northern Baptist College in Manchester, Principal of Bristol Baptist College, and President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. He is co-author of Baptists and the Communion of Saints: A Theology of Covenanted Disciples.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532677065
• ISBN 13: 9781532677069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Cross Anthony R, Haymes Brian