Open Questions in Worship explores current issues and emerging practices in the church's worship from a variety of open perspectives. This series invites all who care for the church's life and mission to renew their understanding of the church's worship. Each volume features three essays on the question, along with bibliography for further inquiry.
This series of eight instructions on baptism were given by St. John Chrysostom, probably at Antioch about 390. Their interest lies in Chrysostom's activity as a mystagogue for the baptismal...
Yet significant differences--some threatening the search for the unity of the Church--remain. This book explores the significance of baptism for the churches, and the ecumenical movement, today.
People are very confused and for a good reason. The world has so many different teachings. How do you know the truth? As you read and study all the scriptures I have included in this book, God will begin to expose the truth.
Baptism: The confusion never seems to go away. Some Christians stress baptism as a gateway into the church. Others see it primarily as an individual's testimony to faith and repentance. Still others concentrate on baptism in the spirit.
Baptism Comparison includes topics such as: Why be baptized? (Jesus' teaching and other Bible passages) What does baptism mean? What happens during a baptism? How do I prepare to be baptized?
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Laurence H. Stookey sifts through the confusion and rhetoric to offer this practical, biblically sound guide to baptism.
Nettles, The Baptists, 3:311. 3. Schreiner and Wright, introduction to Believer's Baptism, 2n4. 4. Cross and Thompson discuss how Baptists use the term sacrament in introduction to Baptist Sacramentalism, 3–7.
... change. Hence, confirmation becomes an exemplary process of change, formatting consecutive processes of change in the life of the christian. Practicing baptism as being conformed to christ is always about being conformed to christ in a ...
In Baptism: Three Views, editor David F. Wright has provided a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views on baptism to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement.