Dimensions of Baptism Biblical and Theological Studies

264 Dimensions of Baptism it, and sees it as a legitimate extrapolation from true baptism, rather than a self-evident practice.^ ...

HOLMES Baptism: Patristic Resources 265 and noting that Cyprian explicitly refused to break communion with anyone who differed o ...

266 Dimensions of Baptism practice: that is why they took the time to write about it (in Augustine's case, at some length). Neit ...

HOLMES Baptism: Patristic Resources 267 (3) This might involve baptists, for the sake of charity, choosing not to query the bapt ...

BAPTISM AND THE HIDDENNESS OF GOD Graham Watts The genesis of the preliminary thoughts which make up this paper is threefold: an ...

WATTS Baptism and the Hiddenness of God 269 The pastoral observation is simply expressed. When someone is bap- tized as a believ ...

270 Dimensions of Baptism God's distance from us: it has everything to do with the reality of his pres- ence with us and the que ...

WATTS Baptism and the Hiddenness of God 271 reception of the promise. Here is Luther's essential theology of the sacra- ments: a ...

272 Dimensions of Baptism vicarious faith offered by the parents, or the Church, thus introducing an even greater gulf between b ...

WATTS Baptism and the Hiddenness of God 273 Barth is not without his critics. One of the more interesting observa- tions, made b ...

274 Dimensions of Baptism Now it is almost certainly the case that Barth's understanding of bap- tism is popular among many Chri ...

WATTS Baptism and the Hiddenness of God 275 case, as Jenson suggests, that if the locus of God's hiddenness is precisely his his ...

276 Dimensions of Baptism divine which will in some way complete us, make us more whole. This is equivalent to creating religiou ...

WATTS Baptism and the Hiddenness ofGod 277 ticipation in the divine life; we are drawn into the open future of God's activity in ...

278 Dimensions of Baptism the narrated past and the promised goal. The crucified and risen Christ is present as the one who is t ...

WATTS Baptism and the Hiddenness of God 279 mental theology of baptism will surely focus on the manner of God's presence with us ...

BAPTISM AND THE PROCESS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION Paul S. Fiddes Common Baptism or Common Initiation? The affirmation that all C ...

FlDDES Baptism and the Process of Christian Initiation 281 show, was the dominant mood of the earlier Faith and Order Paper Bap- ...

282 Dimensions of Baptism costal thinking, and some other evangelical churches; but a strong and continuing stream within the Ba ...

FIDDES Baptism and the Process of Christian Initiation 283 not one isolated moment of baptism with another, but the whole se- qu ...