Download or read book Baptism written by Peter J. Leithart and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've been baptized. But do you understand what it means? Baptism is the doorway into membership in the church. It's a public declaration of the washing away of our sin and the beginning of our new life in Christ. But the sacrament that is meant to unite us is often a spring of division instead. All Christians use water to baptize. All invoke the triune name. Beyond that, there's little consensus. Talk about baptism and you're immediately plunged into arguments. Whom should we baptize? What does baptism do? Why even do it at all? Peter Leithart reunifies a church divided by baptism. He recovers the baptismal imagination of the Bible, explaining how baptism works according to Scripture. Then, in conversation with Christian tradition, he shows why baptism is something worth recovering and worth agreeing on.
Download or read book A Fellowship of Baptism written by Tracey Mark Stout and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fellowship of Baptism is a critical rereading of Karl Barth's ecclesiology, arguing that reading his ecclesiology through the lens of his mature view of baptism best enables one to understand Barth's view of the church. Barth's insistence on believer's baptism is connected to the free-church ecclesiology he develops in the Church Dogmatics. The church, for Barth, is a gathered, concrete community formed by the Holy Spirit. The result of believer's baptism should be a community that is free from cultural and political control so that it can serve the world and witness to it. At the same time, questions are raised about Barth's rejection of the sacramental nature of baptism and the implications this has for ecclesiology. The strengths of believer's baptism and the weakness of his non-sacramental view are both seen in his writings on the church and are brought into conversation with one another. Reading Barth's ecclesiology and doctrine of baptism together helps to show the interdependence of baptism and ecclesiology in Barth as well as in all church teaching and practice.
Download or read book A Fellowship of Baptism written by Tracey Mark Stout and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fellowship of Baptism is a critical rereading of Karl Barth's ecclesiology, arguing that reading his ecclesiology through the lens of his mature view of baptism best enables one to understand Barth's view of the church. Barth's insistence on believer's baptism is connected to the free-church ecclesiology he develops in the Church Dogmatics. The church, for Barth, is a gathered, concrete community formed by the Holy Spirit. The result of believer's baptism should be a community that is free from cultural and political control so that it can serve the world and witness to it. At the same time, questions are raised about Barth's rejection of the sacramental nature of baptism and the implications this has for ecclesiology. The strengths of believer's baptism and the weakness of his non-sacramental view are both seen in his writings on the church and are brought into conversation with one another. Reading Barth's ecclesiology and doctrine of baptism together helps to show the interdependence of baptism and ecclesiology in Barth as well as in all church teaching and practice.
Download or read book On Baptism Against the Donatists written by Saint Augustine of Hippo and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise was written about 400 A.D. Concerning it Aug. in Retract. Book II. c. xviii., says: I have written seven books on Baptism against the Donatists, who strive to defend themselves by the authority of the most blessed bishop and martyr Cyprian; in which I show that nothing is so effectual for the refutation of the Donatists, and for shutting their mouths directly from upholding their schism against the Catholic Church, as the letters and act of Cyprian. Aeterna Press
Download or read book Baptismal Instructions written by Saint John Chrysostom and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of 8 instructions on baptism given by St. John Chrysostom, probably at Antioch, about 390 A.D.
Download or read book 40 Days written by Dennis Edwin Smith and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you desire a more meaningful study and prayer life?Do you feel the need to reach out to others for Christ?If so, youve come to the right place.This book contains 40 days of devotional studies designed to strengthen your relationship with Christ and enable you to lead others to Him. God wants to do something significant in your life, too. Not only does He long to draw you into closer fellowship with HimHe also wants to minister to others through you. And as you spend 40 amazing days with God, He will prepare you for earths final crisis and Christs long-anticipated second coming.
Download or read book The Acknowledged Christ of the Indian Renaissance written by M. M. Thomas and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit written by Merrill F. Unger and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1974-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correcting many contemporary errors and misconceptions about Christian living, Merrill Unger traces the doctrine of the Holy Spirit through the New Testament, pointing out that true maturity is achieved only in day-to-day obedience, fellowship, Bible study, and prayer.
Download or read book A Pedobaptist Church No Home for a Baptist written by Robert Thomas Middleditch and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baptism written by David F. Wright and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian church confesses "one baptism." But the church's answers to how, whom and when to baptize, and even what it means or does, are famously varied. This book provides a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism, Bruce Ware presents the case for believers' baptism, and Anthony Lane argues for a mixed practice. As with any good conversation on a controversial topic, this book raises critical issues, challenges preconceptions and discloses the soft points in each view. Evangelicals who wish to understand better their own church's practice or that of their neighbor, or who perhaps are uncertain of their own views, will value this incisive book.
Download or read book Believer s Baptism written by Thomas R. Schreiner and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is believer’s baptism the clear teaching of the New Testament Scriptures? What are the historical and theological challenges to believer’s baptism? What are the practical applications for believer’s baptism today? Volume two in the NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY STUDIES IN BIBLE & THEOLOGY (NACSBT) series for pastors, advanced Bible students, and other deeply committed laypersons addresses these compelling questions. Indeed, Believer’s Baptism begins with the belief that believer’s baptism (as opposed to infant baptism or other faith proclaiming methods) is the clear teaching of the New Testament. Along the way, the argument is supported by written contributions from Andreas Kostenberger, Robert Stein, Thomas Schreiner, Stephen Wellum, Steve McKinion, Jonathan Rainbow, Shawn Wright, and Mark Dever. Users will find this an excellent extension of the long-respected NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY.
Download or read book The Baptized Body written by Peter J. Leithart and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does baptism do to the baptized? Nothing? Something? In this study, Peter Leithart examines this single question of baptismal efficacy. He challenges several common but false assumptions about God, man, the church, salvation, and more that confuse discussions about baptism. He aims to offer a careful and simple discussion of all the central biblical texts that speak to us about baptism, the nature of signs and rites, the character of the church as the body of Christ, and the possibility of apostasy. In the end, the author urges us to face up to the wonderful conclusion that Scripture attributes an astonishing power to the initiation rite of baptism.
Download or read book Why I Am a Baptist written by Clarence Larkin and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on Baptism and Communion written by Thomas Leslie Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Our Baptism written by Philip R. Meadows and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the roots of early Methodists, Philip Meadows urges readers to use the act of "remembering their baptism" to connect themselves to their own discipleship and mission. This will result in the daily shaping of their Christian lives by personal and corporate spiritual discipline, which is itself decidedly baptismal in character. When church communities of every size remember their baptism, they hold one another accountable for the life of disciplined discipleship and everyday witness. A great resource for small group study and clergy.
Download or read book The Missing Baptism written by Richard E. Snowdon and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you spiritually thirsty? Perhaps you have been a Christian for a long time. You attend a respectable assembly or fellowship, you study the Bible and you regularly hear good ministry. You have escaped nearly two decades of increasingly deceptive spiritual movements, from the so-called Toronto ‘blessing’ to the ‘Purpose Driven’ and ‘Emergent’ Church, to name but a few. Yet still you sense that there must be more to Christianity. More than ‘ticking boxes’ for orthodox doctrine, more than preaching the Gospel to ourselves when, once again, the Lord has not seen fit to send in any of the unsaved to hear our noble efforts. Have you ever read the book of Acts and been thrilled by the sheer spiritual dynamism of those early believers? Have you wondered why there seems to be such a wide difference between their achievements and ours? Have we forgotten that we serve the same God, who "changes not"? Perhaps you have heard others talk about the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and wondered what it is all about. Sadly, for many whose hearts have been stirred, the stagnant waters of traditionalized teaching have quickly extinguished their yearnings. One of the 20th century's most gifted Bible teachers once said, "We don't need Pentecostal doctrine and we don't need Brethren doctrine, what we need is Bible doctrine!" How true. "The Missing Baptism" is an attempt to help believers examine the Scriptures afresh on this vital matter. It invites you to lay aside the distorting spectacles of denominational prejudice, unbelief, fear, and pride and take the Scriptures at face value.
Download or read book The Meaning of Baptism written by Charles Clayton Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
