Recovering the evangelical sacrament : baptisma semper reformandum /

The subject of baptism continues to be of considerable interest, though it frequently appears within broader studies of sacraments, liturgy, worship and ecumenical studies, and within confessional bounds, credobaptist or paedobaptist, yet it is rarely discussed by evangelicals. This book, however, i...

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Main Author: Cross, Anthony R.
Other Authors: Colwell, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2013].
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505 0 |a Introduction : one Lord, one faith, one or possibly an indefinite number of baptisms ... or none at all : the present state of the baptismal debate -- Conversion-baptism -- One baptism -- Spirit- and water-baptism in 1 Corinthians 12.13 -- The Spirit, sacraments, and the material world : being open to God's sacramental work -- Baptismal regeneration -- Baptism into the church -- Ethical sacramentalism -- The reform of baptism. 
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