Baptism: Three Views (Spectrum Multiview Book)

David F Wright, Sinclair B Ferguson, Bruce A Ware, David F. Wright, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Bruce A. Ware, Anthony N. S. Lane

ISBN 10: 0830838562 / ISBN 13: 9780830838561

Editore: INTER VARSITY PR (10 Aug. 2009), 2009

Codice articolo LU-9780830838561

Riassunto:

The Christian church confesses "one baptism." But the church's answers to how, whom and when to baptize, and even what it means or does, are famously varied. This Spectrum Multiview volume provides a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism, Bruce Ware presents the case for believers' baptism, and Anthony Lane argues for a mixed practice. As with any good conversation on a controversial topic, this book raises critical issues, challenges preconceptions and discloses the soft points in each view. Evangelicals who wish to understand better their own church's practice or that of their neighbor, or who perhaps are uncertain of their own views, will value this incisive book. Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Sinclair B. Ferguson is senior minister at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and serves as professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary in Dallas, Texas.
Tony Lane (DD, University of Oxford) is professor of historical theology at the London School of Theology. He is the author of A Concise History of Christian Thought and Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue. A world-class Calvin scholar, he abridged the Institutes into a popular student edition and also edited the translation of Calvin's Bondage and Liberation of the Will.
David F. Wright (1937-2008) was professor of patristic and Reformation Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh. Among his many published studies on historical and theological topics are several on baptism, including What Has Infant Baptism Done to Baptism? An Enquiry at the End of Christendom.

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Titolo: Baptism: Three Views (Spectrum Multiview ...
Casa editrice: INTER VARSITY PR (10 Aug. 2009)
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New