On Being the Church

Brian Haymes was Principal of Northern Baptist College, Manchester (1985-94), Principal of Bristol Baptist College (1994-2000), and President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. He is active in retirement in writing and preaching. Ruth Gouldbourne is Tutor in Church History and Doctrine, Bristol Baptist College, UK Rev. Dr Anthony R. Cross is a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, Oxford. He is a historian and theologian who trained for the Baptist ministry at Bristol and South Wales Baptist Colleges, and studied at the Universities of Bristol, University College Cardiff and Keele before holding pastorates in Cambridge and Wiltshire. He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Theological Research, University of Roehampton, London, and a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, where he succeeded Professor John H.Y. Briggs as Director. He has lectured widely in church history, theology and Baptist history, and written, co-authored and edited a dozen volumes, and published numerous chapters and articles in books and journals. He specializes in Baptist history and theology, with a specific interest in the theology and practice of baptism and evangelical sacramentalism.