The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition - Softcover

Stevenson, Kenneth E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819217743 ISBN 13: 9780819217745

Publisher: Morehouse Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

As the Church continues to try to clarify the meaning of baptism, well-known liturgical scholar Kenneth Stevenson provides important insights into the historical issues with which we still wrestle. Is baptism a private or a public act? Is the symbolism of the rite still appropriate? Does the language of the baptismal service remain meaningful in a secular age?

In order to answer these and other pressing questions, we must understand the thinking of those who have come before us. Stevenson does just that by looking at the writings of the 17th century Anglican divines such as Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, Richard Hooker, Richard Baxter, Jeremy Taylor and others, all of whom have a vital and prophetic significance for our understanding and practice of baptism today.

About this title

About the Author:

KENNETH STEVENSON is the Bishop of Portsmouth and has served on the Church of England's Liturgical and Doctrine Commissions.

Review:

... best sort of Anglican scholarship... thoughtful, accessible, and challenging ... excellent introduction to the life and thought of seventeenth-century Anglicanism. -- Peter Eaton, St. James Rectory, reviewing for Anglican Theological Review

Stevenson reminds the Church of today of the wisdom to be found in its own tradition... moving personal insights... -- Louis Weil, James F. Hodges Professor of Liturgics, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, CA

Ties together the lives and thinking of those in the past with the life and thinking of a present-day counterpart. -- The Rev. Richard J. Anderson, reviewing for The Living Church

About this edition

• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0819217743
• ISBN 13: 9780819217745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224