Scott
Puritan Board Graduate
I found this article good:
THE PRESBYTERIAN DOCTRINES OF COVENANT CHILDREN, COVENANT NURTURE AND COVENANT SUCCESSION
http://www.churchofthekingsacramento.com/presbyteriandoctrine.htm
I had long been bothered by the fact that many in the PCA believe that covenant children need to experience a crisis conversion experience in spite of their baptism and birthright as covenant children. The view that sees this as essential views covenant children as being unsaved and in the world until they have this experience, in spite of their baptism. It seems to me to make a nonsense of infant baptism. Further, it really blows the debate between credo and paedo baptists out of proportion. They are both basically revivalistic in their outlook and baptism is of little real significance. Both has as an initial to to evangelize their little pagan children, as opposed to disciple believing children.
I hope to get a few of the books mentioned in the article. Has anyone else read Lewis Bevens Schenck's The Presbyterian Doctrine of Children in the Covenant: An Historical Study of the Significance of Infant Baptism in the Presbyterian Church in America? I am looking forward to reading it.
Scott
THE PRESBYTERIAN DOCTRINES OF COVENANT CHILDREN, COVENANT NURTURE AND COVENANT SUCCESSION
http://www.churchofthekingsacramento.com/presbyteriandoctrine.htm
I had long been bothered by the fact that many in the PCA believe that covenant children need to experience a crisis conversion experience in spite of their baptism and birthright as covenant children. The view that sees this as essential views covenant children as being unsaved and in the world until they have this experience, in spite of their baptism. It seems to me to make a nonsense of infant baptism. Further, it really blows the debate between credo and paedo baptists out of proportion. They are both basically revivalistic in their outlook and baptism is of little real significance. Both has as an initial to to evangelize their little pagan children, as opposed to disciple believing children.
I hope to get a few of the books mentioned in the article. Has anyone else read Lewis Bevens Schenck's The Presbyterian Doctrine of Children in the Covenant: An Historical Study of the Significance of Infant Baptism in the Presbyterian Church in America? I am looking forward to reading it.
Scott