Baptist Identities

Ian M. Randall (Ph.D.,University of Wales) was appointed as Director of Baptist and Anabaptist Studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, in 1999 and has continued to serve IBTS, from 2002 onwards as Senior Research Fellow. He has supervised and currently supervises a number of PhD students. He has published many articles and a number of books, of which the most significant recent books are Evangelical Experiences (Paternoster, 1999), The English Baptists of the Twentieth Century (Baptist Historical Society, 2005), A School of the Prophets: 150 Years of Spurgeons College (Spurgeons College, 2005) and What a Friend we have in Jesus (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005). He is currently working on a volume on the history of Operation Mobilisation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Toivo Pilli is Director of Baptist and Anabaptist Studies, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic. 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.