Break, blow, burn and make me new - John Donne, Holy Sonnet: Batter my heart “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, a
08.14.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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A dear friend of mine is getting baptized this Sunday, and as a rebirthday present I wrote her this piece. Please don't take it seriously. It is a reminder, if you will, that people can find signs of God everywhere--and a warning that even literary critics can be intellectually dishonest. It is
05.13.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
7 CommentsI originally wasn't planning on writing multiple posts about infant baptism, but Richard Beck's kindly saying that he was eager to follow my thoughts on the matter made me reconsider. I don't have anything terribly profound to say about infant baptism on top of what I've already said, but I woul
04.23.2010| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
4 CommentsGiven all the recent brouhaha about baptism on The Fish Tank (for which I am largely responsible), a friend of mine expressed her concern with the lack of brouhaha about infant baptism - the mode of baptism practiced by the majority of Christians today. As I thought about infant baptism - in
04.16.2010| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
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For the most recent post in this ongoing series, see here. JOSEPH In this post, I wanted to highlight a couple specific strands of what the NT teaches about salvation and see what implications they have for our understanding of baptism. Repentance and Sola Fide Many scriptures about salv
04.12.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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I was spurred by the recent debate about baptism on the Fish Tank to think in more general terms about how to connect spiritual movements—repentance, salvation, sanctification—to physical facts. Seen from a certain perspective, it can seem downright silly to think that merely getting wet, or eat
03.11.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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For the first two parts in this series, see here and here. NICK “God’s gracious giving to faith belongs to the context of baptism, even as God’s gracious giving in baptism is to faith.” (G. R. Beasley-Murray, Baptism in the New Testament, p. 273) One typically unforeseen hazard of deba
03.8.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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