by Stephen Rodgers

This is the hub post for Richard Shin’s seven-part series on baptism.  From this page, you can easily find and refer to all posts in this series.

All posts in the Baptism series:

• Introduction to Baptism
• Baptism in the Ministry of Jesus
• Baptism at Pentecost and in the Ministry of Philip
• Baptism in the Ministry of Paul
• Baptism in the Ministry of Peter
• Baptism in Covenant Theology
• Conclusion

In addition to Richard’s series, we have gath­ered a num­ber of resources together in order to make it eas­ier for peo­ple to begin to think Biblically about this subject. Not wishing to divide these into too many categories, (and wanting to keep this as open and transparent as possible) I’ve broken them up by position. In case it wasn’t clear, LBC holds to the credo-baptist position, as outlined in section D of our Statement of Faith.

For the time-being, I’m keeping these resources at a high level, and not diving down into some of the more particular debates and discussions (the idiosyncrasies of Lutheran baptism, the credo-baptist age debates, the situation and grounding of baptism in either ecclesiology or triune theology proper, etc.).

Credo-Baptist (“Believer’s Baptism”)

• Mark Dever: Should Infant’s Be Baptized?
• John MacArthur (most recently): Is Infant Baptism Biblical? and Believer’s Baptism
• Jonathan Rourke: In Obedience to Christ
• GTY: baptize and baptism

Allegedly Neutral, Mixed, or Reference

• James Anderson: The False Dichotomy in the Baptism Debate
• Craig Blomberg: Baptism’s No Big Deal, Is It?
• The Debate: MacArthur vs. Sproul
• Theopedia: Baptism, Believer’s Baptism, and Infant Baptism
• Triablogue: the Baptism label; also “Baptism in the Bible and Church History”

Paedo-Baptist (“Infant Baptism”)

• R. Scott Clark: A Contemporary Reformed Defense of Infant Baptism
• Kevin DeYoung: Why I Baptize Babies
• Dennis E. Johnson: Infant Baptism – How My Mind Has Changed