Baptist Sacramentalism

by Cross, Anthony R.; Thompson, Philip E.; Packer, James I.

• ISBN13: 9781597527439
• ISBN10: 1597527432
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Baptists are not known for their sacramental theology. 'Baptist Sacramentalism', a collection of essays by Baptist theologians and historians from Great Britain and North America, shows that sacramental theology is not an innovation in Baptist thought and offers a viable way of understanding God's action in the church and the world.Drawing on theology, history, and biblical studies, the contributors explore the physical and spiritual dimensions of Christian theology and experience, the church, baptism, the Lord's supper, religious liberty, the politics of disestablishment, ordination and ministry, and preaching.Contributors include John Colwell, Anthony R. Cross, Stanley Fowler, Curtis Freeman, Timothy George, Tim Grass, Stanley Grenz, Barry Harvey, Michael Haykin, Brian Haymes, Stephen Holmes, Elizabeth Newman, Clark Pinnock, Stanley Porter, lan Randall, and Philip Thompson.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction: Baptist Sacramentalism	p. 1
The Physical Side of Being Spiritual: God's Sacramental Presence	p. 8
The Sacramentality of the Church: An Evangelical Baptist Perspective	p. 21
Sacraments and Religious Liberty: From Critical Practice to Rejected Infringement	p. 36
C.H. Spurgeon on the Sacraments	p. 55
Baptism and the Lord's Supper as Community Acts: Toward a Sacramental Understanding of the Ordinances	p. 76
Re-Membering the Body: Baptism, Eucharist and the Politics of Disestablishment	p. 96
Baptism in Acts: The Sacramental Dimension	p. 117
Is 'Baptist Sacramentalism' an Oxymoron?: Reactions in Britain to Christian Baptism (1959)	p. 129
The Pneumatological Key to H. Wheeler Robinson's Baptismal Sacramentalism	p. 151
'His soul-refreshing presence': The Lord's Supper in Calvinistic Baptist Thought and Experience in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century	p. 117
'To Feed Upon by Faith': Nourishment from the Lord's Table	p. 194
The Lord's Supper: Might Baptists Accept a Theory of Real Presence?	p. 211
The Sacramental Nature of Ordination: An Attempt to Re-engage a Catholic Understanding and Practice	p. 228
Towards a Baptist Theology of Ordained Ministry	p. 247
Towards a Sacramental Understanding of Preaching	p. 263
Index	p. 271
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