After initially coming to Christ in December of 2002, I did not know anything about infant baptism until the fall of 2006. During this time I was attending Regent University and developed a Reformed Theology Class as a personal Directed Study.
Apart from reading Calvin’s Institutes and Louis Berkhof’s Systematic Theology, one of my secondary objectives was to further study the matter of baptism. Even though I made the time to study and understand the Reformed position, I cannot say that I fully embraced it until I had another opportunity to study this same topic in the spring of 2009 at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.
After reading many books and countless articles, the following 5 posts are more or less my defense of why I believe in infant baptism instead of believers baptism. These posts are from my series that I titled, An Apologia of Infant Baptism. After these posts I listed books and articles that I read in coming to my conclusion (Obviously in conjunction with the Bible).
Formulating a Doctrinal Position
Covenant: Defined and Delivered
Resources:
Adams, Jay, The Meaning and Mode of Baptism
Atwood, Nate, Baptism: Who Should Be Baptized and Why
Berkhof, Louis, Systematic Theology
Booth, Robert, Children of Promise: The Biblical Case for Infant Baptism
Calvin, John, Institutes of Christian Religion
Chapell, Bryan, Why Do We Baptize Infants?
Clark, R. Scott, Contemporary Reformed Defense of Infant Baptism
Engel, Paul ed., Understanding Four Views on Baptism
Hodge, A.A., Baptism and Infant Baptism
Jeremias, Joachim, Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries
Jeremias, Joachim, The Origins of Infant Baptism: A Further Study in Reply to Kurt Aland
Johnson, Dennis, Infant Baptism: How My Mind Has Changed
Johnson, Greg, The Prevalence and Theology of Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries, East and West
Johnson, Greg, Infant Baptism
Marcel, Pierre-Charles, The Biblical Doctrine of Infant Baptism: Sacrament of the Covenant of Grace
Murray, John, Christian Baptism
Murray, John, The Covenant of Grace
Owen, John, Of Infant Baptism
Pratt, Richard, Baptism as a Sacrament of the Covenant
Pratt, Richard, Jeremiah 31: Infant Baptism in the New Covenant
Rayburn, Robert, What About Baptism?
Sartelle, John, What Christian Parents Should Know About Infant Baptism
Schaeffer, Francis, Baptism
Sproul, R.C., The Essentials of the Christian Faith
Strawbridge, Gregg ed., The Case for Covenantal Baptism
Strawbridge, Gregg, Covenantal Infant Baptism: An Outlined Defense
Strawbridge, Gregg, Infant Baptism: Does the Bible Teach It
Wallace, Ronald, Calvin’s Doctrine of the Word and Sacrament
Wilsom, Douglas, To a Thousand Generations: Infant Baptism
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Jesse
on Feb 17th, 2010
@ 9:30 pm:
Over time I plan on adding links to the resource section.
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on Mar 18th, 2010
@ 7:52 am:
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