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Author Sonġulašvili, Malxaz, 1963-

Title Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia : the history and transformation of a free church tradition / Malkhaz Songulashvili
Published Waco : Baylor University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in world Christianity
Studies in world Christianity (Waco, Tex.)
Contents Religion in Georgia and Baptists in Europe -- The setting for religious renewal in Georgia -- The early activity of Georgian evangelical Christians and Baptists 1919-1941 -- The formation of the Georgian ECB's institutional identity [1942-1989] -- Evangelism in post-Soviet Georgia -- Reforms in the life of the ECB community -- The missiological experience of the evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia
Summary Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG), provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in Georgian, Russian, German, and English-translating many of these crucial documents for the first time into English-he recounts the history of the EBCG from its formation in 1867 to the present. While the particular story of Georgian Baptists merits telling in its own right, and not simply as a feature of Russian religious life, Songulashvili employs Georgian Baptists as a sustained case study on th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia -- History
SUBJECT Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia fast
Subject Protestants -- Georgia (Republic) -- History
Baptists -- Georgia (Republic) -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
Baptists
Protestants
Georgia (Republic)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781481301121
1481301128