Baptist Sacramentalism

by Anthony R. Cross, Phillip E. Thompson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781842271193
Publisher:	Authentic UK
Publication date:	03/08/2018
Series:	Studies in Baptist History and Thought , #5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Anthony R. Cross has lectured in church history and theology at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, London, and is now a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, Oxford. He is also a Consultant Editor for the Paternoster Press. Philip E. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Heritage, North American Baptist Seminary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. He is married to Marcia and has three sons, Nathanael, Andrew and Matthew.

Table of Contents

Foreword   James I. Packer     xiii
Acknowledgements     xv
Introduction: Baptist Sacramentalism   Anthony R. Cross   Philip E. Thompson     1
The Physical Side of Being Spiritual: God's Sacramental Presence   Clark H. Pinnock     8
The Sacramentality of the Church: An Evangelical Baptist Perspective   Timothy George     21
Sacraments and Religious Liberty: From Critical Practice to Rejected Infringement   Philip E. Thompson     36
C.H. Spurgeon on the Sacraments   Tim Grass   Ian Randall     55
Baptism and the Lord's Supper as Community Acts: Toward a Sacramental Understanding of the Ordinances   Stanley J. Grenz     76
Re-Membering the Body: Baptism, Eucharist and the Politics of Disestablishment   Barry Harvey     96
Baptism in Acts: The Sacramental Dimension   Stanley E. Porter     117
Is 'Baptist Sacramentalism' an Oxymoron?: Reactions in Britain to Christian Baptism (1959)   Stanley K. Fowler     129
The Pneumatological Key to H. Wheeler Robinson's Baptismal Sacramentalism   Anthony R. Cross     151
'His soul-refreshing presence': The Lord's Supper in Calvinistic Baptist Thought and Experience in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century   Michael A.G.Haykin     117
'To Feed Upon by Faith': Nourishment from the Lord's Table   Curtis W. Freeman     194
The Lord's Supper: Might Baptists Accept a Theory of Real Presence?   Elizabeth Newman     211
The Sacramental Nature of Ordination: An Attempt to Re-engage a Catholic Understanding and Practice   John E. Colwell     228
Towards a Baptist Theology of Ordained Ministry   Stephen R. Holmes     247
Towards a Sacramental Understanding of Preaching   Brian Haymes     263
Index     271

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This fine collection of papers will play a key part in the process of dispelling the myth that Baptists do not have a sacramental faith, and will be a reference point for all future discussion on the issue. The contributors not only show that Baptists have had a sacramental understanding of baptism, Lord's Supper and ministry in the past, but they also open out new thinking on sacraments for the present day, for the benefit of the whole Church of Christ."

—Paul S. Fiddes, University of Oxford

"This subversive collection of voices from both sides of the Atlantic challenges popular Baptist theology by recovering a fuller appreciation of the sacraments. It is an important contribution not only to Baptist theology but also to broader ecumenical conversations on the sacraments and ecclesiology."

—Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary

"This is a revealing and stimulating collection, partly exposing the lost Baptist heritage, partly staking out common ground with theologians in other traditions and so promising some inter-confessional rapprochement, frequently self-critical of fellow Baptists' minimizing attitudes, and raising as many questions, large and small, as it answers."

—David F. Wright, University of Edinburgh

Editorial Reviews

"This fine collection of papers will play a key part in the process of dispelling the myth that Baptists do not have a sacramental faith, and will be a reference point for all future discussion on the issue. The contributors not only show that Baptists have had a sacramental understanding of baptism, Lord's Supper and ministry in the past, but they also open out new thinking on sacraments for the present day, for the benefit of the whole Church of Christ."

—Paul S. Fiddes, University of Oxford

"This subversive collection of voices from both sides of the Atlantic challenges popular Baptist theology by recovering a fuller appreciation of the sacraments. It is an important contribution not only to Baptist theology but also to broader ecumenical conversations on the sacraments and ecclesiology."

—Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary

"This is a revealing and stimulating collection, partly exposing the lost Baptist heritage, partly staking out common ground with theologians in other traditions and so promising some inter-confessional rapprochement, frequently self-critical of fellow Baptists' minimizing attitudes, and raising as many questions, large and small, as it answers."

—David F. Wright, University of Edinburgh

From the Publisher