Robert Kolb Professor Castelein provides a point of contact for Lutheran reaction to his chapter in his observation that Martin Luther “was not able convincingly to reconcile the practice of infant baptism with his evangelical position on salvation by trusting God’s Word only” (p. 138). This statement reflects two things that strike a Lutheran reader immediately: (1) how much of what Castelein and I believe about baptism is expressed in similar (or the very same) language, and