Dimensions of Baptism Biblical and Theological Studies

324 Dimensions of Baptism nexus of formation that has already begun. That is conversion. A more seemly interpretation of convers ...

THE MORAL MIRACLE OF FAITH Brian Haymes The title of this brief note, an exercise in pastoral theology, is taken from a standard ...

326 Dimensions of Baptism baptism, in what precedes it and in what follows. God is the primary agent in Christian moral transfor ...

HAYMES The Moral Miracle of Faith 327 interpretations^2 but two themes are particularly important for our reflec- tion. The firs ...

328 Dimensions of Baptism between Pentecost and parousia.^4 The powers have been robbed of any ultimate ability to frustrate the ...

HAYMES The Moral Miracle of Faith 329 The life of faith of the baptized is a miracle in three senses. First, the gift of faith a ...

330 Dimensions of Baptism into which we have to put all the meaningful action. God meets his people in the sacrament such that g ...

HAYMES The Moral Miracle of Faith 331 Church is not called to control the world so much as to be a witness to it of the grace an ...

332 Dimensions of Baptism So I move to my final point, which is to draw out the importance of baptism in this context of moral f ...

THE BAPTISM OF DISCIPLES AND THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH Christopher J. Ellis The experience of living in a post-Christian Europe i ...

334 Dimensions of Baptism With this in mind, the present study will seek to explore the way in which the baptism of believers is ...

ELLIS The Baptism of Disciples 335 grounded structure that links these churches and comes to expression in their gatherings. To ...

336 Dimensions of Baptism towards such a future reality.^9 From within the reformed tradition, J.-J. von Allmen claims that: by ...

ELLIS The Baptism of Disciples 337 This paper attempts to illustrate this claim by examining the interaction between a Baptist u ...

338 Dimensions of Baptism This earthly element replaces for us the invisibility of his bodily life in heaven. This is precisely ...

ELLIS The Baptism of Disciples 339 This claim is that the doctrine of the Church is a more fundamental dis- tinctive of Baptist ...

340 Dimensions of Baptism These early Baptists saw themselves as continuing this radical reforma- tion trajectory which defined ...

ELLIS The Baptism of Disciples 341 Here is a view of the Church which both attributes saving faith to a gift of God through the ...

342 Dimensions of Baptism bear personal witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to take part in the evangelization of the wor ...

ELLIS The Baptism of Disciples 343 tions of infant baptism on the part of the different churches, even offering some positive in ...