Baptists and the Christian Tradition: Towards an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity

In Baptists and the Christian Tradition, editors Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan and Lucas Stamps compile a series of essays advocating "Baptist catholicity." This approach presupposes a critical, but charitable, engagement with the whole church, both past and present, along with the desire to move beyond the false polarities of an Enlightenment-based individualism on the one hand and a pastiche of postmodern relativism on the other.

Introduction: Baptists and the Christian Tradition: What Hath Nicaea to Do with Nashville?, Matthew Y. Emerson, Oklahoma Baptist University, Christopher W. Morgan, California Baptist University, and R. Lucas Stamps, Anderson University (SC)

1. Baptists, the Unity of the Church, and the Christian Tradition, Christopher W. Morgan, California Baptist University, and Kristen A. Ferguson, Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention

2. Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of the Christian Tradition, Rhyne R. Putman, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

3. Baptists, Classic Trinitarianism, and the Christian Tradition, Malcolm B. Yarnell III, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

4. Baptists, Classic Christology, and the Christian Tradition, R. Lucas Stamps, Anderson University

5. Baptists, Classic Ecclesiology, and the Christian Tradition, W. Madison Grace II, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

6. Baptists, Classic Interpretation, and the Christian Tradition, Patrick Schreiner, Western Seminary (OR)

7. Baptists, Corporate Worship, and the Christian Tradition, Taylor B. Worley, Trinity International University

8. Baptists, Baptism, and the Christian Tradition, Matthew Y. Emerson, Oklahoma Baptist University

9. Baptists, the Lord's Supper, and the Christian Tradition, Michael A. G. Haykin, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

10. Baptists, Classic Spirituality, and the Christian Tradition, Dustin Bruce, Boyce College

11. Baptists, Denominational Structures, and the Christian Tradition, Amy Carter Whitfield, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

12. Southern Baptists, Evangelicalism, and the Christian Tradition, David S. Dockery, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

13. Baptists, Global Christianity, and the Christian Tradition, Soojin Chung, California Baptist University

14. Racial Tension, the Baptist Tradition, and Christian Unity, Walter R. Strickland II, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

15. Baptist Contributions to the Christian Tradition, Jason G. Duesing, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

16. Conclusion: Toward an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity, Matthew Y. Emerson, Oklahoma Baptist University, and R. Lucas Stamps, Anderson University

APPENDIX: Baptists, Bapto-Catholic Baptists, and the Christian Tradition, Steven R. Harmon, Gardner-Webb University