WHAT HAS INFANT BAPTISM DONE TO BAPTISM?
An enquiry at the end of Christendom
By David F. Wright. Paternoster. 118 pages. £9.99
ISBN 1 84227 357 4
This slim, large format paperback is made up of the Didsbury lectures for 2003. Though the author belongs to a church which practices paedo-baptism and still wishes to somehow maintain this himself, the book adds up to a damning indictment of baptising babies.
The book barely looks at NT texts but is mainly concerned with what the church has practised down the centuries in which, by and large, infant baptism has dominated, more or less monopolising the theology of baptism.
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