The Jews in English Baptist Eschatology

Conversion, Restoration, and National Identity, 1649-1815
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-525-50230-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 084, Part, gebunden

Reihe: Reformed Historical Theology

Ivan E. Mesa explores how English Particular Baptists held a unique view of the Jewish people within God’s unfolding redemption. As Dissenters themselves, Baptists empathized with the Jewish plight and connected their philo-Semitism to a larger theological vision that anticipated the Jews’ conversion and eventual return to the land of Israel. English Baptists viewed Jews as the people of God, “beloved for the fathers’ sake” (Rom. 11:28). They believed the nation of Israel would one day experience a transformative conversion, aligning with God’s covenantal promises. Through figures such as Henry Jessey, John Gill, Andrew Fuller, and Charles Spurgeon, the author demonstrates how these Baptists advocated for Jewish readmission to England, prayed for the Jews’ conversion, and engaged in charitable work. This Baptist perspective was distinct and influential, demonstrating a millenarian zeal that connected religious, political, and cultural realms within England, with implications stretching as far as the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
Mesa offers a fresh perspective on Christian-Jewish relations, moving beyond the established narratives of anti-Semitism and toward a more comprehensive understanding of philo-Semitic eschatology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mesa, Ivan E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Campi, Emidio

Dingel, Irene

Intan, Benyamin

McKee, Elsie Anne

Muller, Richard A.

Saarinen, Risto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Campi, Emidio
Dr. Emidio Campi ist emeritierter Professor für Kirchengeschichte.

Saarinen, Risto
Dr. Risto Saarinen ist Professor für ökumenische Theologie an der Universität Helsinki.

Dingel, Irene
Prof. Dr. phil. theol. habil. Irene Dingel ist Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte, Mainz.

Mesa, Ivan E.
Ivan Mesa (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the editorial director of The Gospel Coalition. He’s the founder of Inkling Editing and editor of several books, including Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age and The Gospel After Christendom: An Introduction to Cultural Apologetics. He and his wife, Sarah, have four children, and they live in eastern Georgia.

Intan, Benyamin
Benyamin Intan is President of the International Reformed Evangelical Seminary, Jakarta (STTRII).

McKee, Elsie Anne
Dr. Elise Anne McKee is Professor of Reformation Studies and History of Worship at the Princeton theological Seminary.

Muller, Richard A.
Richard A. Muller is P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology Emeritus and is Senior Fellow of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.