Baptist Catholicity

"One Baptism for the Remission of Sins": Baptists and the Baptism Clause

"One Baptism for the Remission of Sins": Baptists and the Baptism Clause

R. LUCAS STAMPS: Baptists can and should affirm every line in the Nicene Creed, including the baptism clause, without any reservation.

Why We Support Adding the Nicene Creed to the Baptist Faith and Message (2000)

Why We Support Adding the Nicene Creed to the Baptist Faith and Message (2000)

We wholeheartedly support this proposed amendment and pray that Southern Baptists will eagerly and joyfully adopt this motion through the appropriate channels, beginning at this year’s annual convention.

Catholicity as Contribution: 3 Ways Baptists Add Their Voice to the Church Catholic's Choir

Catholicity as Contribution: 3 Ways Baptists Add Their Voice to the Church Catholic's Choir

BRANDON D. SMITH: Catholicity as contribution—how a particular denomination or tradition adds its voice of the church catholic’s choir.

2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

Have you ever wanted to read the classics of the Baptist tradition but didn’t know where to begin? This list takes you through a baker’s dozen of some of the most important Baptist works ever written.

Baptists and Classic Christology

Baptists and Classic Christology

R. LUCAS STAMPS: Commitment to sola Scriptura did not mean for the Reformers nor for the earliest Baptists that traditional interpretations of Scripture should be jettisoned.

Benjamin Keach on Baptism and Christ's Descent: An Early Example of Baptist Catholicity

Benjamin Keach on Baptism and Christ's Descent: An Early Example of Baptist Catholicity

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: Benjamin Keach’s view of baptism is orthodox, Reformed, and radical, and it is an example of how Baptists can pursue catholicity without surrendering their distinctives.

How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

D. JEFFREY MOONEY AND ADRIAN MARTINEZ: Creeds provided a core set of beliefs for our congregation so that, regardless of the distinctions of other Christians around us, we could cling to these core elements and celebrate the fact that we were one family in Jesus.

EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We believe that all Christians should pray for and seek Christian unity across ecclesial and denominational lines and that Baptists should not reflexively reject principled, ecumenical dialogue with other Christian traditions.