Retrieval for the Sake of Renewal

Several years ago Mark Noll wrote an article titled “So You're A Baptist—,” in which he asked: “What is the best way to take account of the world's self-described Baptists? Do they constitute a movement with any real cohesion? Or is the term ‘Baptist' so flexible that it designates only a loosely defined collection of heterogeneous fragments clustered haphazardly in one vaguely outlined section of the world Christian landscape?”