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Troubled Waters: The Real New Testament Theology of Baptism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Baptism has been a contested practice from the very beginning of the church. In this volume, Ben Witherington rethinks the theology of baptism and does so in constant conversation with the classic theological positions and central New Testament texts. By placing baptism in the context of the covenant, Witherington shows how advocates of both believer’s baptism and infant baptism have added some...

from the outside. Another difficult question concerns to what degree the new covenant community is continuous or discontinuous with the old covenant community. This question is not answered by simply saying that the new covenant is “new,” or by saying that the new covenant is simply the old one renewed under new management. Unfortunately, the issue of water baptism has on the one hand been assumed to be a matter of little importance (see, for example, most Quakers or the Salvation Army), or on the
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