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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...

addressed primarily or solely to proselytes. Accordingly we find virtually nothing in the New Testament to correspond to what we find in other early Christian documents such as the Didache. Here we read: Concerning baptism, baptize in the following manner: Having first rehearsed all these things, “baptize, in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” in running water; but if you have no running water, baptize in other water, and if you can’t in cold, then in warm. But if you
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