Andy has details of this new volume which is about to appear from Paternoster in the Studies in Baptist History and Thought Series. I have an essay in it and it feels good to be in such distinguished company. The contributions are as follows:
Foreword - Francis Schussler Fiorenza
Introduction: Practicing Sacramentality in Baptist Modality - Philip Thompson
Embodied Grace: Exploring the Sacraments and Sacramentality - Christopher J. Ellis
‘We have an altar’: a Baptist View of Sacrament and Sacrifice in Hebrews - J. Ramsey Michaels
The Sacrament of Fearful Intimacy - Jim Purves
The Church as Sacrament: A Mediating Presence - John E. Colwell
Re-thinking a Sacramental View of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper for the Post-Christendom Baptist Church - Michael F. Bird
Ambiguous Genitives, Pauline Baptism and Roman Insulae: Resoources from Romans to Support Pushing at the Boundaries of Unity - Sean F. Winter
A Feast for All? Reflecting Open Communion for the Contemporary Church - Anthony Clarke
Penance - Paul Sheppy
Can Baptists Believe in Sacred Space? Some Theological Reflections - Graham J.Watts
Baptismal Regeneration: Rehabilitating a Lost Dimension of New Testament Baptism - Anthony R. Cross
The Lord’s Supper and the Spirituality of C. H. Spurgeon - Peter K. Morden
Southern Baptists, Sacramentalism, and Soul Competency - Sean A. White
Ex Opere Operato: Re-thinking a historic baptist Rejection - Paul S. Fiddes
The Sacramentality of the Word in Gregory of Nyssa’s Catechetical Oraiton: Implications for a Baptist Sacramental Theology - Steven R. Harmon
Baptists and Churches of Christ in Search of a Common Theology of Baptism - Stanley K. Fowler
Doug,
I'm a contributor to the book and I was in military intelligence. Life is full of paradoxes.
Posted by: Michael Bid | Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 08:37 AM
Doug,
I'm a contributor to the book and I was in military intelligence. Life is full of paradoxes.
Posted by: Michael Bid | Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 08:34 AM
Doug,
I'm a contributor to the book and I was in military intelligence. Life is full of paradoxes.
Posted by: Michael Bid | Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 08:34 AM
"Baptist thought" – sounds to me a bit like "military intelligence" :)
Posted by: Doug Chaplin | Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM