Isaac Backus and the Second Reformation - Paperback

by Bruce Snavely (Author)

Whatever happened to the Christian Reformation that began under Martin Luther? When did it end? Or better yet, where did it end? Some would say in Puritan England. Others would argue that its terminus ad quem was in the failed Puritan experiment in Colonial New England. But the actual answer lies in the aftermath of the Great Awakening, when the Congregational system gave up thousands of people to genuine conversion and a search for biblical church and, ultimately, the exponential growth of the Baptist denomination.

Author Biography

Bruce Snavely has served as a missionary church-planter, pastor, and a college and seminary professor, and presently takes theological training to indigenous pastors through the foundation he began, Global Baptist Training Foundation(www.gbtf.net).



For twenty years, he served in Canada starting and pastoring churches. Since 2001, he has taught on the university and graduate levels. Snavely earned a master of divinity degree from Moody Theological in 1999 and a PhD in historical theology from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom in 2007.



Snavely continues to teach as an adjunct professor, and, through Global Baptist Training Foundation, trains groups of pastors in Africa, Asia, and Central America. He is married to Grace, and they have four married children and twelve grandchildren.