The Challenge of Being Baptist: Owning a Scandalous Past and an Uncertain Future

Table of Contents

Contents V Preface: What’s in a Name? ix 1 Being Baptist 1 Scandalous Past, Uncertain Future 2 Historical Consciousness among Baptists 15 Owning and Disowning a Tradition 3 Baptist Polity 39 A People’s Church 4 Biblicist but Not Bible? 53 Revisiting Baptist Hermeneutics 5 Once Saved, Almost Saved 75 Revisiting Baptists and Conversion 6 A Congregational Sacramentalism 95 Revisiting Baptist Ecclesiology 7 Toward a Baptist Future 107 The Challenge Ahead Notes 129 Bibliography 139 Indices 147 vii ...