Baptism, covenant, and the sacraments; the sign and seal of the covenant; covenant theology and its administration.
- Biblical Modes of Baptism Meredith Kline
For any mode of relating the water to a person that is attested in the various biblical water ordeals would have biblical warrant. Of course, not all such modes would …
- Children Praying Our Father? Sinclair Ferguson
For, despite protests to the contrary, it is difficult to see how evangelicals can, with theological consistency, teach their children to say ‘Our Father’ and to sing …
- The Second Birth Leonhard Goppelt
Even in anthropological perspective, the basis for being a Christian is not a decision or the appropriation of the commandment, but the second birth established in God’s …
- Baptism-Curcifixion Meredith Kline
At the exodus these judgment waters performed both functions, destroying the Egyptian army but delivering the chosen, priestly nation of Israel. Paul identified these …
- Baptism into Death John Fesko
Would sentimentalism and saccharine emotions dominate congregations if they realized that a person is baptized into the death of Christ? Would characterizations of …
- Beale on Baptism G.K. Beale
In this light, to think that a major people group—infants—is excluded from entry into the new-covenant community seems to go against the grain of the otherwise wider span …
- Kline on Covenant and Election Meredith Kline
When covenant is no longer identified with election and guaranteed blessing, especially when the baptismal sign of incorporation into the covenant is understood as …
- Kline on Baptism Meredith Kline
For the passing of Jesus through the divine judgment in the water rite in the Jordan meant to John’s baptism what the passing of Yahweh to the curse of the knife rite of …
- Fesko on Baptism and the Red Sea John Fesko
According to Paul, baptism foreshadowed in Israel’s Red Sea crossing) is not a miscellaneous cleansing rite or a general sign of initiation, but is that which brings …