Liberty Theological Seminary Book Critique on Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ Submitted to Dr. Christopher Moody in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of this course THEO530- B02LUO Systematic Theology II June 26, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………....3 Summary………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Critique ………………………………………………………………………………………..…4 Conclusion ………... ………………………………………………………………………….…7 Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………..9 Introduction In their book, Believer’s Baptism, the authors Schreiner and Wright attempt to incorporate their views on why baptism is essential in the Christian church. Along with its importance they also go further by promoting the believer’s baptism over infant baptism. They begin by attacking the Christian claim found among many that baptism is a trivial issue. They quickly negate this statement with an alternate point of view, that Christians who suffered persecution and martyrdom did not believe it to be so. Summary Placing aside the foreword and introduction, there are ten chapters or sections to this book.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………...…1 DOCTRINE CONCERNING SCRIPTURE…………….……………………………………..…1 DOCTRINE CONCERNING GOD………………….……………………………………..…….2 DOCTRINE CONCERNING MAN………………………………………………………………3 DOCTRINE CONCERNING SALVATION……………………………………………………..4 DOCTRINE CONCERNING THE CHURCH……………………………………………..…….4 WAY OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE……………………………………………………………….5 FAMILY (AMENDMENT ADDED)………………………..……………………………………5 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………………6 INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast The 1963 Baptist Faith and Message (1963 BF&M) and the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message (2000 BF&M). In 2000 Adrian Rogers the president of the Southern Baptist Convention made theological and sociological revisions to the 1963 confession. Despite the similarities and the revisions between the two confessions there are major concerns on topics about the doctrine of God. Many pastor-theologians endeavor on what to improve to the confession which has and will continue to impact the Baptist’s history past, present, and future. The 1963 BF&M confessions being revised are the faith and message that was set forth positive teaching the American Baptist believes.
Unfortunately, this focus appears to be fading in many of the churches my wife and I have visited in recent years. I know that in my own life, I have been focused more on my personal relationship with God and less with spreading the Gospel. New View of Evangelism Although I was well aware of the “Great Commission” when this course began, in practice I thought that practical evangelism is the responsibility of professional ministers. I have witnessed when the opportunity presented, however I did not feel a driving passion to evangelize the lost. I was more concerned about my personal walk.
Many examples in the book made me consider perspectives that I had never thought of before. In my opinion, this book definitely stirred up a reassurance of my place in society and what can be done to liberate the oppressed. I believe the voices represented in this book can cause negative reactions from some churches because it goes against what is and has been normal. Churches would not really like to change the view of “white” Christ to be a diverse Christ of another race because it would change certain aspects and power. The church is called to be one diverse body of God, but as churches can remain dominant to one race, it becomes difficult to incorporate diversity into what already is established.
a. 49 AD 3. What did Ignatius of Antioch teach about the role of the bishop? a. Bishop presides in place of god, celebrates eucharist…primary role 4. What did Cyprian of Carthage teach about the unity of the church?
Gods Jury shows what happened in the past during the inquisition and the protestants reformation. The inquisition was something that was started by the pope in 1231 and this was first which was started to get rid of heretics, eventually the spanish inquisition was started because of the protestant reformation. In the 16th century the protestant reformation was started unofficially it wasn't until Martin Luther posted the 95 theses. this officially sparked the start of the protestant reformation. With this spark there was a rise of many other protestant religions such as Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and etc.
In most jobs, you probably can't just walk up and get in someone's face about Christ. You have to be sensitive to the situation and open to the Spirit opening the door. We are not supposed to go out and try and convert the non-Christian soldiers, but if they ask about Christ, chaplains are free to share what he/she believes. This means that evangelism begins with simply getting to know the soldiers in any military unit, loving them, serving them, and letting them know that Christian chaplains, hope and strength comes from
2. The Bible is a revelation of God in that God chooses to use it in working salvation in the believing community. 3. The Bible is a revelation of God in that the Bible tells us about God (Couch, 2009, p4.). The essential or main responsibility of evangelical theology is defining the divine transcendence immanence within the faith shared as a believing society within a specified literary context.
I will depend on God to open door so that I may minister to people that be guided by his grace. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hutson, James H. Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries. Cambridge [U.K.]:
Ordination "confers a gift of the Holy Spirit that permits the exercise of a 'sacred power' …which can come only from Christ himself through the Church" (CCC, no. 1538). The first priest figure to appear in the Old Testament is Melchizedek, who offered a sacrifice of bread and wine on behalf of the patriarch Abraham (Gn 14:18-20). He symbolized the permanence of priesthood: "Like Melchizedek you are a priest forever" (Ps 110:4). God also chose Aaron and his sons to be priests (Ex 28:1ff.)