The meaning of the words baptism according to Non-Baptist Scholars.

[greenbaggins]

All right, you want doppelganger, I'll give you doppelganger. Take that in profile subtitle! Bwa, ha, ha, ha.

Is Beasley-Murray still in print? 4 of the 5 volumes are available from WTS books for a grand total of $42 (one of the volumes there is a double volume).

 

[Coram Deo]

What is the 5th Volume that is missing at WTS?

Is it important? What subtopic of baptism would it cover?

All right, you want doppelganger, I'll give you doppelganger. Take that in profile subtitle! Bwa, ha, ha, ha.

Is Beasley-Murray still in print? 4 of the 5 volumes are available from WTS books for a grand total of $42 (one of the volumes there is a double volume).

 

[Ivan]

Mode is immaterial....Am I on the slippery-slope?

 

[Herald]

Mode is immaterial....Am I on the slippery-slope?

Brother Ivan, check out this thread and what the LBC says on baptism. Mode presents a clear picture of what baptism signifies In my humble opinion.


http://www.puritanboard.com/f57/questions-baptism-31622/

 

[Ivan]

Mode is immaterial....Am I on the slippery-slope?

Brother Ivan, check out this thread and what the LBC says on baptism. Mode presents a clear picture of what baptism signifies In my humble opinion.


http://www.puritanboard.com/f57/questions-baptism-31622/

Thanks for the thread, Brother Bill. I won't be doing anything other than immersing any time soon. I'm on board there. I think there more important fish to fry.

 

[Kevin]

Mode is immaterial....Am I on the slippery-slope?

Brother Ivan, check out this thread and what the LBC says on baptism. Mode presents a clear picture of what baptism signifies In my humble opinion.


http://www.puritanboard.com/f57/questions-baptism-31622/

Remind me again, How did Jeaus go "under" the ground when he was buried?

 

[Kevin]

Mode is immaterial....Am I on the slippery-slope?

Brother Ivan, check out this thread and what the LBC says on baptism. Mode presents a clear picture of what baptism signifies In my humble opinion.


http://www.puritanboard.com/f57/questions-baptism-31622/

Why exacly does this particular metaphore trump all others, that are used to describe baptism?

 

[DMcFadden]

Oh, come on, guys. Isn't the real issue with the proper subjects of baptism, not the mode? Don't you know that TR Karl Barth lol argued against infant baptistm (1943) because the practice of infant baptism leads inevitably to the Volkskirche. In a similar vein, Bonhoeffer objected that “we gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without conditions. . . . Was there ever a more terrible or disastrous instance of the Christianizing of the world than this?”

Here is a bibliography (not mine) on the topic [READER ALERT: Not too many confessional anybodies in this list; but a who's who anyway] . . .

Continental and Main-line Protestant

Aland, Kurt. Did the Early Church Baptize Infants? Trans. G.R. Beasley-Murray. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1963.

Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics Vol IV The Doctrine of Reconciliation Part 4 (Fragment) Baptism as the Foundation of the Christian Life. Trans. G.W. Bromiley. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1969.

____________. The Teaching of the Church Regarding Baptism. Trans. E.A. Payne. London: SCM Press, 1948.

Barth, Marcus. “Baptism and Evangelism,” Scottish Journal of Theology 12(1) (March 1959): 32-40.

_____________. Die Taufe ein Sakrament? Zollikon-Zurich, 1951.

Brunner, Emil. Truth as Encounter. Trans. A. Loos & D. Cairns. Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1960.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Disciplship. Trans. R.H. Fuller. NY: Macmillan, 1957.

*Church of Scotland. The Biblical Doctrine of Baptism: A Study Document issued by the Special Commission on Baptism of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1958.

Commission on Faith and Order. Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982.

Cullmann, Oscar. Baptism in the New Testament. Trans. J.K.S. Reid. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1950.

Jeremias, Joachim. Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries. Trans. D. Cairns. Philadelphia: Westminster, Press, 1960.

Kierkegaard, Soren. Attack Upon Christendom. Trans. Walter Lowrie. Beacon Press, 1956.

*Though part of the United Kingdom, the Church of Scotland Commission so closely follows the Continental Reformed paradigm, that I have included it here.

Baptist

Beasley-Murray, G.R. Baptism in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1962.

Clark, Neville. An Approach to the Theology of the Sacraments. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1956.

Jewett, Paul K. Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1978.

Moody, Dale. Baptism: Foundation for Christian Unity. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967.

Anglican and British

Church of England Liturgical Commission. Baptism and Confirmation. London: SPCK, 1959.

Church of England Theological Commission appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on the Relations between Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion. The Theology of Christian Initiation. London: SPCK, 1948.

Coke, Henry C. III. Why Baptize Babies? The Case for Infant Baptism. New York: Seabury, 1957.

Cryer, Neville. By What Rite? Infant Baptism in a Missionary Situation. London: Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1969.

Dix, Gregory. The Theology of Confirmation in Relation to Baptism. London: Dacre Press, 1945.

Holmes, Urban III. Confirmation: The Celebration of Maturity in Christ. New York: Seabury, 1975.

Moule, C.F.D. “Baptism with Water and the Holy Spirit,” Theology 48(304) (1945): 246-249.

Pocknee, Cyril E. Infant Baptism Yesterday and Today. London: Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1966.

Quick, Oliver, C. The Christian Sacraments. London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1927.

Stevick, Donald B. Supplement to Prayer Book Studies 26: Holy Baptism—Prepared for Standing Liturgical Commission. Church Hymnal Corporation, 1973.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. “Christian Initiation: Development, Dismemberment, Reintegration,” Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers #1: Christian Initiation—Reborn of Water and the Spirit. Ed. D.C. Brockopp, B.L. Helge, D.G. Truemper. Valparaiso, IN (1981): 31-56.

_____________. Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life: A Systematic Theology (New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1980.

Roman Catholic

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “The Instruction on Infant Baptism, Oct. 20, 1980,” Origins 10(30) (Jan. 8, 1981).

Covino, Paul F.X. “The Postconciliar Infant Baptism Debate in the American Catholic Church,” Worship 56(3) (May 1982): 240-260.

Kavanagh, Aidan. Confirmation: Origins and Reform. New York: Pueblo Publishing Co., 1988.

_______________. The Shape of Baptism: The Rite of Christian Initiation. (New York: Pueblo Publishing Co., 1978

Kilmartin, Edward J. “Faith and Baptism: Sacramental Theology in the Lima Document,” Catholic Perspectives on Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry: A Study Commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America, pp. 135-160. Ed. Michael A. Fahey. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Neunheuser, Burkhard. “Baptism,” Encyclopedia of Theology: The Concise Sacramentum Mundi. Ed. Karl Rahner. New York: Seabury, 1975.

Searle, Mark. Christening: The Making of Christians. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1980.

________. “Infant Baptism Reconsidered,” Alternative Futures for Worship: Volume 2: Baptism and Confirmation. Ed. Mark Searle. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1987.

 

[greenbaggins]

What is the 5th Volume that is missing at WTS?

Is it important? What subtopic of baptism would it cover?

All right, you want doppelganger, I'll give you doppelganger. Take that in profile subtitle! Bwa, ha, ha, ha.

Is Beasley-Murray still in print? 4 of the 5 volumes are available from WTS books for a grand total of $42 (one of the volumes there is a double volume).

The four volumes that are available at WTS include Judaic Baptism, Johannic Baptism, Christic Baptism/Patristic Baptism (two volumes in one). The volume that is missing is Classic Baptism (the word in Greek classical literature). That volume is available here.

 

[Archlute]

What is the 5th Volume that is missing at WTS?

Is it important? What subtopic of baptism would it cover?

All right, you want doppelganger, I'll give you doppelganger. Take that in profile subtitle! Bwa, ha, ha, ha.

Is Beasley-Murray still in print? 4 of the 5 volumes are available from WTS books for a grand total of $42 (one of the volumes there is a double volume).

The four volumes that are available at WTS include Judaic Baptism, Johannic Baptism, Christic Baptism/Patristic Baptism (two volumes in one). The volume that is missing is Classic Baptism (the word in Greek classical literature). That volume is available here.

Hey, thanks for the link, Lane! That's the very one that I am missing.