Retracing Baptists in Rhode Island. Identity, formation, and history.

Although Baptists have long considered themselves a faith founded on freedom, in the Dorr rebellion Lemons shows the struggle that Rhode Island Baptists had in defining what freedom should look like. Lemons does an excellent job of showing the reader that Rhode Island Baptists are a microcosm for Baptists in America and even around the world. J. Stanley Lemons's excellent work reminds the reader that the Baptists of Rhode Island were more than just a few men, a handful of churches and a university. [Extracted from the article]