Description:
A biography of the British Nonconformist minister, evangelist, and activist John Clifford.
Review Quotes:
For Baptists today it is hard to imagine someone like Clifford. He was a national figure, to the extent that he was the object of ridicule in national newspaper cartoons. This makes Watts's book important. It can serve as a recovery of Clifford, the churchman and the socialist. His witness and example deserve to be better known and engaged with, alongside those of Helwys, Bunyan, Carey, and Spurgeon. Clifford was a man of his time and so there is much to which many will no doubt disagree, both theologically and politically, but he was undoubtedly an ardent Baptist voice.Gregory, in bringing Watts's excellent study to a wider audience, has done a great service. It is a fitting honour to Watts's own legacy that this will now accompany his three-volume history of The Dissenters (1978-2015).
--Andy Goodliff, Regent's Park College, University in Oxford, UK "British Baptist Quarterly"