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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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

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

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"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.

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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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EBC Manifesto, Article V: Traditioned Creatures

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EBC Manifesto, Article V: Traditioned Creatures

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We encourage a critical but charitable engagement with the whole church of the Lord Jesus Christ, both past and present. We believe that Baptists have much to contribute as well as much to receive in the great collection of traditions that constitute the holy catholic church. We believe that we are “traditioned” creatures and that we should move beyond the false polarities of an individualistic modernity and a relativistic postmodernity.

 

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