NAC STUDIES IN BIBLE & THEOLOGY

BELIEVER’S BAPTISM

SIGN OF THE NEW COVENANT IN CHRIST

EDITED BY

THOMAS R. SCHREINER &
SHAWN D. WRIGHT

SERIES EDITOR: E. RAY CLENDENEN

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Believer’s Baptism
by Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright

Copyright © 2006 B&H Publishing Group

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8054-3249-7

Dewey Decimal Classification: 243.161
Subject Heading: DOCTRINE \ BAPTIST

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Dedication

To Diane and Gretchen,
Our dear wives who daily live out the reality of the gospel before us,
our children, and our church.

“An excellent wife is the crown of her husband” (Prov 12:4)

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Series Preface

Author Preface

Foreword

Timothy George

Introduction

Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright

1. Baptism in the Gospels

Andreas J. Köstenberger

2. Baptism in Luke-Acts

Robert H. Stein

3. Baptism in the Epistles: An Initiation Rite for Believers

Thomas R. Schreiner

4. Baptism and the Relationship between the Covenants

Stephen J. Wellum

5. Baptism in the Patristic Writings

Steven A. McKinion

6. “Confessor Baptism”: The Baptismal Doctrine of the Early Anabaptists

Jonathan H. Rainbow

7. Baptism and the Logic of Reformed Paedobaptists

Shawn D. Wright

8. Meredith Kline on Suzerainty, Circumcision, and Baptism

Duane A. Garrett

9. Baptism in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement

A. B. Caneday

10. Baptism in the Context of the Local Church

Mark E. Dever

Author Index

Subject Index

List of Abbreviations

AB Anchor Bible

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary

ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers

ASR Austin Seminary Review

AThR Anglican Theological Review

BA Biblical Archeologist

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

BDAG Bauer, W., F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed.

BDB Brown, F., S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament

BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

Bib Biblica

BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library

BSac Bibliotheca Sacra

BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

CH Church History

CRINT Compendia rerum ...