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Contesting Catholicity - Theology for Other Baptists (Paperback)
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Contesting Catholicity - Theology for Other Baptists (Paperback)
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Baptists originated as a protest movement within the church but
have developed over time into a distinct sect, one committed to
preserving its place in the hierarchy of denominations. In today's
postmodern, disestablished context, Baptists are in danger of
becoming either a religious affinity group, a collection of
individuals who share experiences and commitments to a set of
principles, or a countercultural sect that retreats to early
Enlightenment propositions for consolation and support.In
Contesting Catholicity, Curtis W. Freeman offers an alternative
Baptist identity, an "Other" kind of Baptist, one that stands
between the liberal and fundamentalist options. By discerning an
elegant analogy among some late modern Baptist preachers,
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baptist founders, and early
patristic theologians, Freeman narrates the Baptist story as a
community that grapples with the convictions of the church
catholic. Deep analogical conversation across the centuries enables
Freeman to gain new leverage on all of the supposedly distinctive
Baptist theological identifiers. From believer's baptism, the
sacraments, and soul competency, to the Trinity, the priesthood of
every believer, and local church autonomy, Freeman's historical
reconstruction demonstrates that Baptists did and should understand
themselves as a spiritual movement within the one, holy, catholic,
and apostolic church. A "catholic Baptist" is fully participant in
the historic church and at the very same time is fully Baptist.
This radical Baptist catholicity is more than a quantitative sense
of historical and ecumenical communion with the wider church. This
Other Baptist identity envisions a qualitative catholicity that is
centered on the confession of faith in Jesus Christ and historic
Trinitarian orthodoxy enacted in the worship of the church in and
through word and sacrament.
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