Author: Old, Hughes Oliphant
Title: The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century
Description: Eerdmans Pub Co 1992, First Edition, Hardcover. . 0802836992 Contents include: The Latin Baptismal Rites on the Eve of the Reformation, The First Translations of the Latin Rites, The First Reformed Baptismal Rites, The Anabaptist Bid for the Reform of the Baptismal Rites, The Defense of Infant Baptism, Catechetical Instructions, The Washing and the Word. ; 1.3 x 9 x 6.2 Inches; 324 pages; This meticulously researched book recounts how the early sixteenth-century Reformers, steering a course between the old Latin rites on the one hand and the Anabaptist movement on the other, developed a baptismal service that they understood to be reformed according to Scripture. Hughes Oliphant Old's study shows the Reformed baptismal rite to be well thought out, pastorally sensitive, and theologically profound. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Keywords: RELIGION CHRISTIANITY BAPTISM


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