Proclaiming the Baptist Vision: Baptism and the Lord's Supper

by Shurden, Walter B.

• ISBN13: 9781573121767
• ISBN10: 1573121762
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub

Summary

This fifth volume in the series contains essays that focus on the ordinances of the Baptist Church -- Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Walter B. Shurden
I. Proclaiming the Baptist Vision of Baptism
At the River	13	(8)
Bill J. Leonard
Living into Our Baptism	21	(6)
Paul D. Duke
Baptism: A Swift Stream of Hard Water	27	(6)
Charles E. Poole
Newness of Life	33	(8)
Julie Pennington-Russell
Why Baptists Should Not Rebaptize Christians from Other Denominations	41	(8)
G. Todd Wilson
How Baptists Can Enrich the Practice of Baptism	49	(10)
Richard Groves
II. Proclaiming the Baptist Vision of the Lord's Supper
Retaining the Mystery in a Nonsacramental Tradition	59	(8)
C. Welton Gaddy
Fencing the Table	67	(6)
Thomas Clifton
Communion: Remembering Christ and Each Other	73	(6)
George A. Mason
Remembering Him	79	(4)
Bernadette Glover-Williams
How Baptists Can Enrich the Practice of the Lord's Supper	83	(10)
John E. Boyd
III. Helps in Proclaiming the Baptist Vision of Baptism and the Lord's Supper
A Baptist Theology of Baptism	93	(24)
R. Wayne Stacy
A Baptist Theology of the Lord's Supper	117	(12)
Fisher Humphreys
Discovering and Preaching the Ordinances Again for the First Time	129	(8)
Kenneth Chafin
Contributors	137