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CBR is a group of conservative, evangelical Baptists committed to a retrieval of the Great Tradition of the historic church for the renewal of Baptist faith and practice. To search posts and articles, click here.
BRANDON D. SMITH: A short list of Baptists doing patristic theology and retrieval well.
R. LUCAS STAMPS: How can a single individual be both God and man?
BRANDON D. SMITH: We should teach Christology with the Bible as our authority and the councils as our fundamental resource.
SCOTT JAMES: Open the Word of God with your children and let it dwell richly in your home.
BRANDON D. SMITH: A new book on the church's mission gives Baptists much to think about.
TIMOTHY GEORGE: Theological education over the next decades of the twenty-first century will need to be increasingly personal, incarnational, global, and gospel centered.
SAMUEL PARKISON: As a pastor, one of my responsibilities is to teach members how to worship in seasons of extreme grief and suffering.
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm that all people, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender, are created in God's image and, if they have repented and believed in Christ, are brothers and sisters together in the one body of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. Because of this shared imago dei and because of Christ's saving work among all nations, peoples, and tongues, we believe that one major task of Baptist catholicity is to promote racial unity, especially within the body of Christ.
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We encourage a critical but charitable engagement with the whole church of the Lord Jesus Christ, both past and present. We believe that Baptists have much to contribute as well as much to receive in the great collection of traditions that constitute the holy catholic church. We believe that we are “traditioned” creatures and that we should move beyond the false polarities of an individualistic modernity and a relativistic postmodernity.
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm the distinctive contributions of the Baptist tradition as a renewal movement within the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. These distinctives include the necessity of personal conversion, a regenerate church, believers’ baptism, congregational governance, and religious liberty.