Infant Baptism in Historical Perspective: Collected Studies

by David F. Wright

Publisher:

Paternoster

, 2007

Overview

These important and incisive essays, spanning more than two decades of research and engagement, probe facets and episodes of infant baptism’s fortunes over twenty centuries. The story of paedo baptism is traced from its shadowy beginnings as a variant of faith-baptism, through inflated Reformation defenses as it monopolized baptismal thought and practice, to biblical and ecumenical re-evaluations and hopeful contemporary rapprochements across divisive waters.

Praise for the Print Edition

Essential reading for infant Baptists and believer Baptists alike.

Product Details

• Title: Infant Baptism in Historical Perspective: Collected Studies
• Author: David F. Wright
• Publisher: Paternoster Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 300

About David F. Wright

 

David F. Wright (1937-2008) was professor of patristic and Reformation Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh. Among his many published studies on historical and theological topics are several on baptism, including What Has Infant Baptism Done to Baptism? An Enquiry at the End of Christendom.