Contesting Catholicity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting Catholicity write by Curtis W. Freeman. This book was released on 2014. Contesting Catholicity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Contesting Catholicity, Curtis W. Freeman offers an alternative Baptist identity, an "Other" kind of Baptist, one that stands between the liberal and fundamentalist options. By discerning an elegant analogy among some late modern Baptist preachers, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baptist founders, and early patristic theologians, Freeman narrates the Baptist story as a community that grapples with the convictions of the church catholic.
Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective
Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective write by Jan Martijn Abrahamse. This book was released on 2020-10-12. Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective Jan Martijn Abrahamse offers a methodologically innovative way to understand ordained ministry in terms of covenantal theology by returning to the life and thought of the English Separatist Robert Browne (c. 1550-1633).
Seeds of the Church
Seeds of the Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeds of the Church write by Teun van der Leer. This book was released on 2022-11-30. Seeds of the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The landmark World Council of Churches convergence text, The Church: Towards a Common Vision (2012), which has the potential to become this generation's Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (1982), invites the churches to envision how their own distinctive visions of the church might have a place in the global church's imagination of the ecumenical future. Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology is a collaborative effort by members of the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity to respond to this invitation. This book contends that the distinctive Baptist ecclesial vision is best embodied in twelve core practices of Baptist churches and their interrelationship: covenanting, discerning, gathering, befriending, proclaiming, equipping, baptizing, discipling, caring, theologizing, scattering, and remembering. Seeds of the Church opens a window on what is possible when Baptists engage with people of other Christian traditions in the exploration of the common heritage of people belonging to the one household of faith. The global Baptist theological voices represented in this volume offer it as a reading of an ecumenical text in a Baptist key that paves the way for ecclesiological renewal--among Baptists and in the whole church to which they belong.
In the Name of Our Lord
In the Name of Our Lord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Name of Our Lord write by Jonathan D. Watson. This book was released on 2021-07-21. In the Name of Our Lord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who is a member of the church? Christians divide on how one enters the church body. Matters are quickly complicated once other factors are considered, such as faith, instruction, baptism, first communion, and formal membership. Who should be baptized? What role does instruction play? And what is the best order of these things? Jonathan D. Watson's In the Name of Our Lord provides an explanatory typology and incisive analysis for thinking through these interrelated questions. Watson's four--model framework accounts for the major historical varieties of relationship between baptism and catechesis as initiation into the church. With this framework in place, Watson then considers each model in relation to one another. With a guide to navigating the terrain, readers can comprehend, compare, and contrast these different theological formulations. Readers will have a sophisticated but clear system for thinking through foundational matters that are important to every pastor and congregant.
Who Can Take the Lord's Supper?
Who Can Take the Lord's Supper? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Can Take the Lord's Supper? write by Dallas W. Vandiver. This book was released on 2021-09-10. Who Can Take the Lord's Supper? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are likely more basic for the church than you think. When Jesus inaugurated the new covenant by his death on the cross, he established baptism as the new covenant sign of entry and the Lord’s Supper as the new covenant sign of participation. These signs identify believers with Christ and his people. They are integral to the existence, membership, and discipline of the local church. In answer to the question “Who can take the Lord’s Supper?” this book catalogues four major positions in the broad Baptist tradition. While proponents of various views have appealed to the necessity of circumcision for participation in Passover as evidence for their position, none have adequately worked out the covenantal relationships between circumcision and baptism or Passover and the Lord’s Supper. By contrast to Reformed pedobaptist covenantal theology and in distinction from Baptist covenantal theology and dispensational theologies, this book develops the relation of these covenantal signs from a progressive-covenantal perspective. It presents an unprecedented comparison of the continuities and discontinuities between the covenant signs across the storyline of Scripture to demonstrate a biblical-theological principle that the sign of entry should precede the sign of participation.
