Research Catalog

Title

Baptist sacramentalism / edited by Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson ; foreword by James I. Packer.

Publication

Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K. ; Waynesboro, GA : Paternoster Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Cross, Anthony R.
• Thompson, Philip E.

Description

xiv, 278 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This collection of essays includes historical and theological studies in the sacraments from a Baptist perspective. Subjects explored include the physical side of being spiritual, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the church, ordination, preaching, worship, religious liberty and the issue of disestablishment.

Series Statement

Studies in Baptist history and thought ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Studies in Baptist history and thought ; v. 5.

Subject

• Sacraments > Baptists
• Baptism > Baptists
• Lord's Supper > Baptists
• Ordination > Baptists
• Baptists > Doctrines

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The physical side of being spiritual: God's sacramental presence / Clark H. Pinnock -- The sacramentality of the church: an evangelical Baptist perspective / Timothy George -- Sacraments and religious liberty: from critical practice to rejected infringement / Philip E. Thompson -- C.H. Spurgeon on the sacraments / Tim Grass and Ian Randall -- Baptism and the Lord's Supper as community acts: toward a sacramental understanding of the ordinances / Stanley J. Grenz -- Re-membering the body: baptism, eucharist and the politics of disestablishment / Barry Harvey -- Baptism in Acts: the sacramental dimension / Stanley E. Porter --
• Is 'Baptist sacramentalism' an oxymoron?: reactions in Britain to Christian Baptism (1959) / Stanley K. Fowler -- The pneumatological key to H. Wheeler Robinson's baptismal sacramentalism / Anthony R. Cross -- 'His soul-refreshing presence': the Lord's Supper in Calvinistic Baptist thought and experience in the 'long" eighteenth century / Michael A.G. Haykin -- 'To feed upon by faith': nourishment from the Lord's table / Curtis W. Freeman -- The Lord's Supper: might Baptists accept a theory of real presence? / Elizabeth Newman -- The sacramental nature of ordination: an attempt to re-engage a Catholic understanding and practice / John E. Colwell -- Towards a Baptist theology of ordained ministry / Stephen R. Holmes -- Towards a sacramental understanding of preaching / Brian Haymes.

ISBN

1842271199

OCLC

• 53404815
• SCSB-12466877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library