Article, blog, Liturgy, Theology
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Why This Baptist Church Uses Incense

 The Bible encourages us to employ every sense we have in the worship and adoration of the God who breathed into our nostrils life and the sweetness of grace.

Why This Baptist Church Uses Incense
Article, blog
Cody Glen Barnhart
‘The Way the Words Run’: Grammar and Christian ...

CODY GLEN BARNHART: To know God, we must learn—and to learn, we must have a grasp of language, including speech, syllables, and grammar.

‘The Way the Words Run’: Grammar and Christian Theology
Article, blog
Guest
5 Ways to Understand Aquinas on Analogy

JOHN R. GILHOOLY: The chief organizing idea of Thomas's question 13 is an epistemological doctrine that Aquinas has from Boethius (and Aristotle): everything is known according to the power of the knower.

5 Ways to Understand Aquinas on Analogy
Article, blog
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Thomas Grantham's Robust Memorialism

Baptists would do well to listen to Grantham’s wisdom on the Lord’s Supper.

Thomas Grantham's Robust Memorialism
Article, blog, Theology
Guest
'A Pretty Even Pace': Isaac Backus and the ...

Backus’ approach to civil and religious matters during the American Revolution provides insights into how complex and difficult these days were for the Baptist movement. 

'A Pretty Even Pace': Isaac Backus and the Baptist Two-Front War During the American Revolution

Baptist Distinctives

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

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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.

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CBR Podcast Ep 15 - Baptist Confessions of Faith

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CBR Podcast Ep 15 - Baptist Confessions of Faith

In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps discuss Baptist Confessions of Faith, a collection of the most important Baptist (and Anabaptist) confessions of faith. This episode is the first of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.

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2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

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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.

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Baptists and Classic Christology

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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.

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EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

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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.

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EBC Manifesto, Article IV: Baptist Distinctives

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EBC Manifesto, Article IV: Baptist Distinctives

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm the distinctive contributions of the Baptist tradition as a renewal movement within the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. These distinctives include the necessity of personal conversion, a regenerate church, believers’ baptism, congregational governance, and religious liberty.

 

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for the sake of renewal.