{"title":"‘Building the New City of God’: The Role of Women in John Clifford's Vision for a Christian Society","authors":"Karen E. Smith","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2274732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2274732","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTJohn Clifford was a Baptist pastor and Christian socialist in London from 1858 to 1923. A strong advocate for social reform, throughout his ministry, he supported the inclusion of women in leadership roles in the Church, and he was a strong advocate for female suffrage. This article suggests that his views on the roles of women were grounded in early life experiences, and explores the ways that throughout his ministry he promoted the view that women had an essential part of play in building the kingdom of God.KEYWORDS: John CliffordsuffrageWestbourne ParkMillicent FawcettSarah Bonwick Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 The British Congregationalist, 17August 1911 as cited in H. Edgar Bonsall and Edwin H Robertson, The Dream of an Ideal City: Westbourne Park 1877–1977 (York: William Sessions Ltd, The Ebor Press, 1978), 18–20.2 For more on John Clifford’s approach to the Social Gospel see, David M. Thompson, “John Clifford’s Social Gospel,” Baptist Quarterly 31, no. 5 (1986): 199–217 and J. H. Y. Briggs, The English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century (Didcot: The Baptist Historical Society, 1994), 327ff.3 John Clifford, The New City of God Or The Primitive Christian Faith As A Social Gospel, An Address from the chair of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland at the Autumnal Assembly in Huddersfield, October 3rd, 1888 (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1888), 5.4 Clifford, The New City of God, 4.5 Ibid., 9.6 Ibid., 24.7 Sir James Marchant, Dr. John Clifford, C.H. Life, Letters and Reminiscences (London: Cassell and Company, 1924), 9.8 Ibid., 8.9 Ibid., 8.10 Ibid., 12.11 Ibid., 13.12 He obtained a BA, BSC (Logic and Moral Philosophy, Geology, and Palaeontology), MA (coming first in his year), LLB (Principles of Legislation), H. Edgar Bonsall in collaboration with Robertson, The Dream of An Ideal City, 7; Marchant, Dr. John Clifford, C.H. Life, Letters and Reminiscences, 14.13 Richard Pike was the son of the first secretary of the General Baptist Missionary Society. Charles T. Bateman, John Clifford, Free Church Leader and Preacher (London: National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches, 1904), 19.14 He also had three uncles who were Baptist ministers: Elam, Silas and John Stenton. Marchant, Dr. John Clifford, C.H. Life, Letters and Reminiscences, 13.15 Ibid., 13.16 Ibid., 14.17 Ibid., 12.18 Ibid., 31–32.19 Ibid., 38.20 Ibid., 39.21 They married at East Street Baptist Church in Southampton in 1862. They had five children who lived to adulthood: three sons and two daughters, Kate and Edith. Another daughter, Grace, died at the age of three. Marchant, Dr. John Clifford, C.H. Life, Letters and Reminiscences, 175.22 “The Ruling Sex,” in The General Baptist Magazine for 1877, ed. John Clifford, 79th Volume (London: E Marlborough and Company), 384. The words were taken from Tennyson's poem “Perfect Unity”.23 “A Woman on the Fluent Verbosity of Men,” The General Baptist Magazine (1877): 2","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"148 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135371567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Lisle: a faith that couldn’t be denied <b>George Lisle: a faith that couldn’t be denied</b> , by Doreen Morrison, Eugene Oregon, WIPF and Stock, 2023, 339 pp., £32.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-6667-4036-3","authors":"Anthony Reddie","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2266167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2266167","url":null,"abstract":"\"George Lisle: a faith that couldn’t be denied.\" Baptist Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cotswold Pastor and Baptist Hymn Writer: The Life and Times of Benjamin Beddome (1718–1795) <b>Cotswold Pastor and Baptist Hymn Writer: The Life and Times of Benjamin Beddome (1718–1795)</b> , by Stephen Pickles, Ossett, yorkshire UK, The James Bourne Society, 2023, 471 pp., £20.00 (Hardback), no ISBN","authors":"Austin Walker","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2261804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2261804","url":null,"abstract":"\"Cotswold Pastor and Baptist Hymn Writer: The Life and Times of Benjamin Beddome (1718–1795).\" Baptist Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being attentive: explorations in practical theology in honour of Robert Ellis","authors":"J. H. Y. Briggs","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2258326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2258326","url":null,"abstract":"\"Being attentive: explorations in practical theology in honour of Robert Ellis.\" Baptist Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attending to the Margins. Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore","authors":"Paul Goodliff","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2256138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2256138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78216711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Clifford, (1836–1923): Liberal, Socialist, Free Churchman, Companion of Honour","authors":"David M. Thompson","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2247704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2247704","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper provides background and context for a day conference marking the centenary of the death of the Revd John Clifford, a leading British Baptist minister of the late 19th and early 20th century. Brought up in a working class home on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border, Clifford was trained at the Leicester General Baptist College, and spent his entire ministry at Praed Street/Westbourne Park Baptist Church in West London. There he studied at the University of London, gaining outstanding results in several Bachelor's degrees. He campaigned successfully to bring the Baptist Union and the New Connexion of General Baptists together in 1891. As President of the Baptist Union in 1888–89, he was involved in the Union's handling of the 'Downgrade Controversy' that had led to the withdrawal of C.H. Spurgeon (who remained a friend) from the Baptist Union, but did not secure his return. The later part of his career was dominated by the Education controversy, particularly in the passive resistance campaign in which many nonconformists refused to pay their education rate under the 1902 Education Act.","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"203 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82609598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Clifford, Edward Burne-Jones and the Service of Art to Religion","authors":"Christine E. Joynes","doi":"10.1080/0005576X.2023.2248804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2023.2248804","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses John Clifford's essay on the Victorian artist Edward Burne-Jones found in his 1898 monograph Typical Christian Leaders. It demonstrates that the ideas in this essay, which has been overlooked by scholars, are closely connected to those expressed in Clifford's other work such as his The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible (1892). Clifford's essay makes an important contribution both to the question of what constitutes ‘Christian Art' and to an understanding of Clifford himself. It therefore deserves more attention than it has received to date.","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":"231 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83136680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wapping Baptists: Murky Origins and the Silence of John Spilsbery","authors":"Nathan Sherman","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2247693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2247693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89729928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Clifford and God’s Greater Britain","authors":"Andy Goodliff","doi":"10.1080/0005576x.2023.2247685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2023.2247685","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This short article is an engagement with John Clifford’s book God’s Greater Britain and other writings with regard to his thoughts on the British Empire. The article seeks to make a contribution to a small growing exploration of Baptists and imperialism. It concludes by asking how we view Clifford’s imperialism in the context of his time and the present day.","PeriodicalId":39857,"journal":{"name":"The Baptist quarterly","volume":"7 1","pages":"218 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85571497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}