A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage

This book is a collection of historical sources which were used in the magisterial volome by H. Leon McBeth "The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness". The author gives a short introduction to important documents. This book should be used by professional historians as a companion to Baptist studies. Many materials printed in this volume are not published somewhere else, so you don't need look for and collect the sources by yourself.

There are diverse voices from across the centuries that one can find nowhere else in this great collection by Leon McBeth.!

Leon McBeth adds his Sourcebook for the Baptist Heritage as a larger extension of footnote material for his "Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness" (Broadman, 1987) The student of Baptist history will certainly appreciate this extra volume because of the effort that McBeth has included in its pages to carefully illustrate not only the genuine scholarship that he has put into his work, but also the 'human' side of the people about whom he is writing. (There are some personal letters included within the Sourcebook to give the reader some glimpses into the lives of the people or the events connected with the materials presented in the BH.) Furthermore, this book gives the readers the chance to read the primary materials for themselves and to dialogue with McBeth's conclusions.