Baptist Historical Society of Queensland
The National Guide to
Australian Baptist Historical Resources and Services
On line version © 1999
edited by David Parker and
Keith Applegate
© David Parker Oct 1999
Bibliography
General
Entries on Baptists or Baptist Church in major encyclopaedias such as Australian Encyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dickey, Brian, The Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography (Sydney: EHA, 1994)
Gillman, Ian, Many Faiths,One Nation (Sydney: Collins, 1977)
Humphreys, R. and Ward, R., Religious Bodies in Australia: a Comprehensive Guide (Wantirna: New Melbourne Press, 1995)
Standard reference works on Baptist history
and principles
Background and Theology
Beasley-Murray, Paul, Radical Believers: the Baptist Way of Being the Church (London: Baptist Union of Great Britain, 1992)
Bryant, Cyril E., The Fellowship of Kindred Minds - A Brief History of the Baptist World Alliance (Washington: BWA, 1964)
Cook, Henry, What Baptists Stand For (London: Carey Kingsgate, 1961)
Hulse, Errol, An Introduction to the Baptists (Haywards Heath: Carey Publications, 1973)
Lumpkin, W.L. (ed.), Baptist Confessions of Faith (Chicago: Judson, 1959)
McBeth, H.L., The Baptist Heritage (Nashville: Broadman, 1987)
Payne, E.A., The Fellowship of Believers (London: Carey Kingsgate, 1944)
Robinson, H. Wheeler, The Life and Faith of the Baptists (London: Carey Kingsgate, 1946)
Tiller, Carl W., The Twentieth Century Baptist (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1980)
Torbet, R.G., A History of the Baptists (Valley Forge: Judson, 1975)
Underwood, A.C., A History of the English Baptists (London: Carey Kingsgate, 1947)
Australian
Bollen, J. D., Australian Baptists - a Religious Minority (London: Baptist Historical Society, 1975)
Brown, Basil S., Baptised into one Body: a Short History of the Baptist Union of Australia (Hawthorn, Vic.: Baptist Union of Australia, 1987)
Hughes, Philip J., The Baptists in Australia (Canberra: AGPS, 1996) (Religious Community Profiles Series)
Manley, K.R., Baptists - Their Heritage and Faith (Brisbane: Baptist Union of Queensland, 1974)
Manley, K.R. & Petras, M., The First Australian Baptists (Sydney: Baptist Historical Society of NSW, 1981)
Petras, Michael (ed.) , Australian Baptists - Past and Present (Sydney: Baptist Historical Society of NSW, 1988)
Prior, A.C., Caring is by Sharing: Twenty-five years of Australian Baptist World Aid and Relief (Sydney: ABWARC, 1984)
Prior, A.C., (editor) Into the land that time forgot [souvenir of the beginning of the Australian Baptist New Guinea Mission] 2nd edition. (Melbourne: ABFM, 1951)
Roberts-Thompson, E. With Hands Outstretched: Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement (Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1962)
Australian - Historical
Allen, Daniel, Letters and other writings of the late Pastor Daniel Allen with memoir by F. Beedel Sydney Geo Booth, 1901
Chandler, John, Forty Years in the Wilderness: a narrative of the experience and the Lord’s dealings with an early colonist, together with some accounts of the first Particular Baptist Church in Victoria (1893; reprinted Main Ridge, Vic.: Loch Haven Books, 1990)
Dowling, Rev. H., Incidents in the life of Henry Dowling (1871)
McCure, John Bunyan, Life in England and Australia (London: R. Banks, 1876)
Archival
Ansell, Leo J., Register of Church Archives (2nd Ed.) (Toowoomba: Church Archivists’ Society, 1985)
Ansell, Leo J., The Small Archives’ Companion (Toowoomba: Church Archivists’ Society, 1987)
Family History
Breed, Geoffrey R. Breed, My Ancestors were Baptists (London, Society of Genealogists (3rd ed 1995)
Kopittke, Eric and Rosemary So, Your Ancestor was a Baptist in Queensland! (BHS of Q, 1995)
See also state listings below for denominational, church and
personal histories.