Troubled Waters: Rethinking the Theology of Baptism

ISBN-13: 9781602581937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 159 str.

III Ben Witherington

Opis

Baptism has been a contested practice from the very beginning of the church. In this volume, Ben Witherington rethinks the theology of baptism and does so in constant conversation with the classic theological positions and central New Testament texts. By placing baptism in the context of the covenant, Witherington shows how advocates of both believer's baptism and infant baptism have added some water to both their theology and practice of baptism.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• 1 Getting Our Feet Wet
• The antecedents of Christian baptism outside the New Testament
• 2 John's Baptism Totally Immersed in His Work
• Pre-Christian initiations in the New Testament and pre-sacramental texts
• 3 Parting the Waters
• The beginnings of water baptism as a Christian rite Acts
• 4 Trial by Water Ordeal
• Paul and burial with Christ
• 5 Breaking the Waters of Birth
• Water baptism in the Johannine literature?
• 6 Down in the Flood
• Baptism in Hebrews and I Peter
• 7 A Rite of Passage
• A theology of water baptism in the New Testament
• 8 Postscript Coming Up for Air
• Where do we go from here?