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What does baptism do to the baptized? Nothing? Something? In this study, Peter Leithart examines this single question of baptismal efficacy. He challenges several common but false assumptions about God, man, the church, salvation, and more that confuse discussions about baptism. He aims to offer a careful and simple discussion of all the central biblical texts that speak to us about baptism, the...

of the most fundamental of Protestant commitments, namely, that Scripture—not tradition, not even the Reformed tradition—is the final rule of faith and practice. I like to say that the whole project is an effort to drag conservative Reformed churches, all kicking and screaming, into the twentieth century, the century of ecclesiology.1 With this little book, unpolished and polemical, narrow and hurried, I hope to drag us all a few more inches.
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