Fisher Humphreys. Atlanta: Baptist History & Heritage Society, 2007. 24 pp. (Paperback).
Fisher Humphreys, professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, has made a tremendous contribution to the Christian cause, and the Baptist cause particularly, with the publication of this meaningful volume.
Humphreys begins by defining theology as "an understanding of God and how God relates to the world and the people in it." He then points out that early Baptists had two commitments: one to the community and the other to freedom, tradition and beliefs.
Humphreys closes by pointing to urgent theological issues today such as religious freedom. Consider the closing sentence: "Baptists have good reason to believe that in the future, as in the past, the spirit of God will continue to remind them of Jesus and also to guide them into all truth."
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