Revd Dr Keith G Jones

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Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Revd Dr Keith G Jones

BA (Theology, University of Manchester), MA (University of Bradford), PhD (IBTS/Wales), FRHistS, FCMI

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Dr Jones grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He trained for Baptist Ministry at the Northern Baptist College, Manchester in the 1970's and then was called to be minister of the Baptist Church Centre, Barnoldswick. In 1980 he was appointed General Secretary of the Yorkshire Baptist Association. He served there until 1990 when he was called to be Deputy General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain.

In 1998 he was appointed Rector of the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic, and served there until 2013 when he returned to his native Yorkshire. Since then he has held lecturing posts with Northern Baptist College, St Hild College in Sheffield , has chaired the Board of the Luther King Educational Partnership in Manchester and been President of the Baptist Historical Society. He is a member of Shipley Baptist church, West Yorkshire, where he serves as a Deacon.

Research Interests

Dr Jones' main areas of academic research are Baptist and Anabaptist life and thought as well as various streams of Christian worship and liturgy.

Publications

Mission not Impossible: Baptist Missionaries’ Experiences and Reflections. Introduction: Ian M Randall, Baptist Historical Society and BMS World Mission, Didcot, Oxfordshire, 2023.

Justification in the Reformation. Foreword: Paternoster publications, 2012

The Practice of Ministry: An Introductory Handbook. Editor and principal contributor: Tribun Publishers, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7399-592-8 IBTS. Expanded and enlarged 2010, IBTS, 2010 ISBN 978-80-87006-10-8

The European Baptist Federation: A Case Study in Interdependency. Authentic media, Paternoster, Milton Keynes 2009. ISBN 978-1-84227-639-6

A Shared Meal and a Common Table: Some reflections on the Lord’s Supper and Baptists. The 1999 Whitley Lecture. Published 2000. Whitley Trustees, Oxford, 2000. Also published in Czech by the Whitley Trustees as: Sdílení večeře páně a společného stolu: Několik úvah nad Večeří Páně a Baptisty

A Believing Church: Learning from some contemporary Anabaptist and Baptist perspectives (Second revised edition,2005). Baptist Publications, Didcot, United Kingdom. (1998 first edition). Also translated and published in Armenian by the Evangelical Baptist Union of Armenia, 2008; in Spanish by the Union of Baptists in Latin America, 2009 and in Lithuanian by the Baptist Union of Lithuania,2014.

From Conflict to Communion. Some strategies and possibilities in local and regional inter-church life. Baptist Publications. 1996.

The Lord's Supper. Baptist Basics series. Baptist Publications. 1995

Currents in Baptistic Theology of Worship Today. IBTS Publications. 200, Edited with Parush R Parushev and including chapter “On abandoning public worship”.

Counter-Cultural Communities: Baptistic life in 21 Century Europe. Edited with Ian M Randall. Paternoster Press. April 2008.

Articles

Journal of European Baptist Studies: “A Believing Church” re-considered . Journal of European Baptist Studies ,Volume 25, Number 1,( 2025).

Journal of Baptist Theology in Context: “We, a handful of the unworthy dust of Zion - discerning the mind of Christ amongst baptistic believers” Simon Hall and Keith G Jones , Autumn 2025.

Twentieth Century Baptists: People, places, Principles: An Ecumenical High Point? The Baptist Quarterly, Issue 52. Volume 1. (January 2021)

Editorial and review co-authored, celebrating 20 years with Ian M Randall Journal of European Baptist Studies (Volume 20 Number 2, January 2021)

A “mistake” which became a triumph: the achievements of the IBTS doctoral programme 1998 – 2014. Journal of European Baptist Studies (2017)

Reflections on the recent statement by British Baptist ministers and scholars on “The courage to be Baptist: A Statement on Baptist Ecclesiology and Human Sexuality”. Baptist Minister’s Journal (2017)

Re-visiting the Web: Baptist Ecclesia and Interdependency. Baptistic Theologies, Volume 7, Number 2, Autumn 2015 (published January 2016)

Desert Island books. The Baptist Ministers’ Journal (Volume 329, January 2016)

Spirituality and Structures. Journal of European Baptist Studies. Volume 13, Number 2. January 2013.

On Gathering, Intentional, Convictional Communities of faith. Journal of European Baptist Studies. Volume 13, Number 1. September 2012

50 articles on history, liturgy, church life and theology in: A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought. Editorial committee: Ian M Randall, Keith G Jones, Toivo Pilli. General Editor: John H Y Briggs Authentic Media, Paternoster, Milton Keynes, 2009.

Baptists and Creation Care. Baptist Quarterly Volume 42. No 7. July 2008.

The Baptist World Alliance and Baptist Identity: A Reflection on the Journey to the Centenary Congress Message, 2005. Journal of European Baptist Studies. Volume 8. No. 2. January 2008

The Baptist World Alliance: Message from the Centenary Congress. Journal of European Baptist Studies. Volume 6. No.1. September 2005

Anabaptist Style Communion. The Journal of the Baptist Union Retreat Group. Winter 2004/05

Towards a Model of Mission for Gathering, Intentional, Convictional Koinonia. Journal of European Baptist Studies. Volume 4. No.2. January 2004

The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart: Insights on European Baptist Spirituality. Baptist Quarterly. Volume 40. No 4. October 2003

Rethinking Baptist Ecclesiology. Journal Of European Baptist Studies. Volume I Number 1. September 2000

The International Baptist Theological Seminary of the European Baptist Federation. American Baptist Quarterly. Volume XVIII. Number 2. June 1999.

Deepening our Confessions of Faith Together. One in Christ : A Catholic ecumenical Review. Vol. XXXIII. No4. 1997.

Presiding at the Lord’s Supper. Preaching Today. Volume 38. No. 3. Autumn 1995.

Struggle and Contemplation. The Journal of the Baptist Union Retreat Group. Autumn 1998.

Also published in the Baptist Union Retreat Group Occasional Papers. Paper Number 20. June 1999.

The Community of the Prince of Peace. The Journal of the Baptist Union Retreat Group. Autumn 1997,.

Beginning with God. Co-contributor to the Bible Studies of the Denominational Consultation. Baptist Union Publications. July 1996.

Book Chapters

Baptists and Gender: Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Baptist Studies. Edited by Melody Maxwell and T. Laine Scales. Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2023. Chapter: Margaret Jarman, Pioneer in Baptist Women’s Ministry in England.

Grounded in Grace: Essays to Honour Ian M Randall. Edited by Pieter J Lalleman, Peter J Morden and Anthony R Cross. Spurgeon’s College and the Baptist Historical Society, 2013. Chapters: with Peter J Morden A Biographical sketch of Ian M Randall. A Moment of Transformation: The European Baptist Federation and the Collapse of the Soviet Union and its European and Central Asian Empire, 1989-92.

Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity. Edited by Dietrich Werner, David Esterline, Namsoon Kang and Joshva Raja. Regnum Books, Oxford, 2010. Chapter: Theological Education in Baptist Churches (with Lina Andronovienė and Parush R Parushev).

Exploring Baptist Origins. Edited by Anthony R Cross and Nicholas J Wood. Regent’s Park College. February 2010.

Chapter: “Baptists and Anabaptists Reassessed”

Zo zijn onze manieren! : In gesprek over gemeentetheologie. Editor: Teun van der leer. Published by Unie van Baptisten Gemeenten in Nederland. September 2009. Article: Baptisten ecclesiologie:Sociologie of theologie ? (in Dutch)

Anabaptist Mission Gathering Round the Table (chapter) in: Anabaptism and Mission, Editors Wilbert R Shenk and Peter F Penner. Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld, Germany, 2007.

Leading a Theological Education in Europe Today (chapter) in: Theological Education as Mission. Editor: Peer F Penner Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld, Germany 2005.

Armenia; Towards a “baptistic Contextual Theology (chapters) in: Towards an Understanding of European Baptist Identity. Editors: Rollin G Grams and Parush R Parushev. IBTS, Praha, 2006.

Prayers of the People: A Feschstrift for John Weaver. Contribution of prayers on the environment. Editors: Simon Woodman and Helen Dare Regent’s Park College, Baptist Centre for History and Heritage Oxford, 2011.

Coming Home: Stories of Anabaptists in Britain and Ireland. Edited by Dr’s Alan Kreider and Stuart Murray Pandora Press, Canada. 2000

Baptist Perspectives: What Value democracy? One chapter in a series of three. Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church Publications, 1997.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES PRIOR 1975 - 1995

Our Heritage:The Baptists of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire, 1647 - 1987. Lancashire and Cheshire and Yorkshire Baptist Associations, 1987. 179 pages. Illustrated. Principal author of Chapters 6 to 10. Co-authors: Dr Ian M Sellers, the Revd E F Clipsham, the Revd J F V Nicholson.

This is the principal history of the Baptists of the north of England from the earliest beginning until 1987. The editor in chief was the late Dr Ian M Sellers of Manchester University. I was principal author of the account from 1837 until 1987.

The Authority of the Trust Deed: A Yorkshire Perspective. The E A Payne Memorial Prize Essay. The Baptist Quarterly. Volume XXXIII. No. 3. July 1989.

Have Baptists got Faith in the City?. The Baptist Quarterly. Volume XXXIII. No. 1. January 1989.

The Industrial Revolution: Effects upon the Baptist community in Barnoldswick and the resulting “split” in the Baptist Church. The Baptist Quarterly. Volume XXX. No.3. July 1983.

The Township Romero. Missionary Herald. July 1991.

Present Encounter not past memorial. An article on the 460th Anniversary of the death of Zwingli. The Baptist Times. Volume 139. Thursday 10 October 1991.

Pastoral Care notes for Baptist Deacons, Elders and Visitors. Yorkshire Baptist Association. 1988.

Christian Worship:Some contemporary issues. Joint editor and Chapter 3, Architecture and Worship Yorkshire Baptist Association. 1984.

Memberships & Networks

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Other Activities

Travel, local history and reading.