Towards Baptist Catholicity Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision

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Towards Baptist Catholicity Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision

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'Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision' contends that the reconstruction of the Baptist vision in the wake of modernity's dissolution requires a retrieval of the ancient ecumenical tradition that forms Christian identity through liturgical rehearsal and ecclesial practice. Themes explored include catholic identity as an emerging trend in Baptist theology, tradition as a theological category in Baptist perspective, the relationship between Baptist confessions of faith and the patristic tradition, the importance of Trinitarian catholicity for Baptist faith and practice, catholicity in biblical interpretation, Karl Barth as a paradigm for a Baptist and evangelical retrieval of the patristic theological tradition, worship as a principal bearer of tradition, and the role of Baptist higher education in shaping the Christian vision. This book submits that the proposed movement towards catholicity is neither a betrayal of cherished Baptist principles nor the introduction of alien elements into the Baptist tradition. Rather, the envisioned retrieval of catholicity in the liturgy, theology, and catechesis of Baptist churches is rooted in a recovery of the surprisingly catholic ecclesial outlook of the earliest Baptists, an outlook that has become obscured by more recent modern reinterpretations of the Baptist vision and that provides Baptist precedent of a more intentional movement towards Baptist catholicity today.

ISBN

9781597528320

Publication Date

2006

Publisher

Wipf and Stock

City

Eugene

Keywords

Baptist history, worship tradition

Disciplines

Christian Denominations and Sects | Christianity | History of Christianity | Liturgy and Worship | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Towards Baptist Catholicity Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision


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