Baptists and the Catholic Tradition: Reimagining the Church’s Witness in the Modern World, 2nd ed.
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Overview
Barry Harvey provides a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ. Speaking to the broader Christian community, Harvey updates, streamlines, and recontextualizes the arguments he made in an earlier edition of this book (Can These Bones Live?). This new edition offers a contemporary revival of “Baptist Catholicity,” a style of ecclesial witness that can help Christian churches engage culture. The author suggests new ways Baptists can engage ecumenically with Catholics and other Protestants, offers insights for Christian worship and practice, and shows how the fragmented body of Christ can be re-membered after Christendom.
- Explores new ways Baptists can engage ecumenically with Catholics and other Protestants
- Offers a style of ecclesial witness that can help Christian churches engage culture
- Provides a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ
- Foreword to the Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Where, Then, Do We Stand?: The Church as the Presupposition of Theology
- Can These Bones Live? The Dismembering of Christ’s Body
- Caught Up in the Apocalypse: God’s Incursion into the World in Israel and Christ
- Let Us Be like the Nations: Becoming Entangled in the Ways of the World
- Sacramental Sinews: The Sacramental Re-membering of Christ’s Body
- Holy Vulnerable: Spiritual Formation for a Pilgrim People
- Dwelling Again in Tents: Living in Tension with the Earthly City
When they were a persecuted religious minority, Baptists took great pains to demonstrate the continuity of the faith they confessed with the catholic tradition. But cultural establishment brought with it disdain for and disconnection from a catholicity that in modernity seemed awkwardly countercultural. Barry Harvey’s Baptists and the Catholic Tradition does not only cogently argue that Baptists have no ecclesial future apart from a catholic one; this manifesto for Baptist ecumenical engagement also boldly proposes that the needed catholicity cannot be found in reconstruction or idealization but only by identification with—and not separation from—concrete manifestations of the catholicity of the church.
—Steven R. Harmon, associate professor of historical theology, Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity
- Title: Baptists and the Catholic Tradition: Reimagining the Church’s Witness in the Modern World
- Author: Barry Harvey
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 256
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Modern Church
Barry Harvey (PhD, Duke University) is professor of theology in the Honors College at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a theologian and teacher in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and is the author or coauthor of several books.