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The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists: Restoring New Testament Christianity: Essays in Honor of Paige Patterson is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to the scholarly and pastoral authors of this essay collection, sixteenth-century Anabaptists have much to teach Baptists and other Free Church evangelicals. A study of the lives and theology of evangelical Anabaptists encourages a reader to dig deeper into the Bible, count the cost of discipleship to Jesus Christ, and commit oneself to engaging the world with the gospel of Jesus...

on the voluntary nature of the Christian faith, or will it be lost in the rush toward theological determinism and the New Calvinist cry against “decisionism”?13 Perhaps the most surprising chapter in this scholarly volume is provided by California super-church pastor Rick Warren, “The Anabaptists and the Great Commission.” For those perhaps experiencing their first sustained exposure to the Anabaptists and their tradition, it may be surprising to find that Rick Warren consciously modeled Saddleback
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