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No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s.

Publication: Baptist History and Heritage
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700s. By Keith E. Durso, Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society and Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 2007. 292 pp.

For centuries Baptists were a hated sect, persecuted over their insistence in practicing believer's baptism by immersion and their belief in religious liberty for all religious denominations. Through the years, they solidified their identity through the telling of their stories of persecution, both in England and America. By the mid-nineteenth century, Baptists acquired the form of religious liberty they desired...

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