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This classic work on baptism, originally published in 1962, is an exceptionally competent and exhaustive treatment of its subject. Baptism in the New Testament considers the Old Testament and Judaistic background to baptism, as well as giving a detailed study of relevant New Testament passages. Beasley-Murray begins his study with a consideration of the antecedents of Christian baptism, and...

difference of concept from that generally received is not great, but I fancy that Clemen did not wish to go so far. Yet can any baptismal utterance go ‘further’ than that which is implied in Rom. 6:1 ff? An adequate appreciation of that passage will make it apparent that the relationship between the Spirit and baptism in 1 Cor. 12:13 is no more than would be expected. More specifically, the contention that the baptism ‘in or by one Spirit’, 1 Cor. 12:13, is Christian baptism in water (ἐν ὕδατι),
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