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- ↑ Gerboth, Karen (Summer 2004). "A Defining Presidency | Wittenberg University". Wittenberg Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ↑ "Baird Tipson: 26th President of Washington College". Washington College. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ↑ Tipson, Baird. (2015). Hartford Puritanism : Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and their terrifying God. Oxford [England]: Oxford U. Press. ISBN 9780190212520. OCLC 895029843.
- ↑ Tipson, Baird. (2020). Inward Baptism : The Theological Origins of Evangelism. New York: Oxford U. Press. ISBN 9780197511503.
