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The Christian church confesses “one baptism.” But the church’s answers to how, whom and when to baptize, and even what it means or does, are famously varied. This book provides a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism,...

seriousness and thoughtfulness with which she took this step of baptism. Baptism was for her a decisive and demarcating event. Despite its Presbyterian setting, it carried Baptistic overtones. Where the rite touches actual lives, surprises sometimes ensue. Many, if not most, of the churches in the West operate now in increasingly post-Christian societies. David Wright has argued that our situation is becoming far more like the pre-Constantinian world of the early church.2 For this reason, in addition
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