R. Lucas Stamps
John Gill Reading Group

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John Gill Reading Group
Article, Reading Challenge, Theology
CBR Staff
2024 CBR Reading Challenge: Gill’s Body of ...

This year and next, we are going to read The Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity by the eighteenth-century Baptist divine, John Gill.

2024 CBR Reading Challenge: Gill’s Body of Divinity
blog, Article, Theology
R. Lucas Stamps
The Baptist Ideal: Religious Freedom in an Age ...

R. LUCAS STAMPS: Despite its diversity, the consistent accent in Baptist political theology has been placed upon religious liberty.

The Baptist Ideal: Religious Freedom in an Age of Moral Confusion
Spirituality Classics, Article
Winston Hottman
Gregory the Great and Pastoral Care

WINSTON HOTTMAN: Pastoral Care is Gregory’s most important contribution to pastoral theology and comes down to us as a definitive classic.

Gregory the Great and Pastoral Care
Church History, Theology, Reading Challenge, Podcast
CBR Staff
CBR Podcast Ep 23 - The Lives of Antony, Moses, ...

In this episode, CBR Directors Brandon Smith and Winston Hottman discuss Athanasius’s The Life of Antony. This episode accompanies our 2023 Christian Spirituality Classics Reading Challenge.

CBR Podcast Ep 23 - The Lives of Antony, Moses, and Macrina

Baptist Catholicity

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Catholicity as Contribution: 3 Ways Baptists Add Their Voice to the Church Catholic's Choir

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Catholicity as Contribution: 3 Ways Baptists Add Their Voice to the Church Catholic's Choir

BRANDON D. SMITH: Catholicity as contribution—how a particular denomination or tradition adds its voice of the church catholic’s choir.

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2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

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2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

Have you ever wanted to read the classics of the Baptist tradition but didn’t know where to begin? This list takes you through a baker’s dozen of some of the most important Baptist works ever written.

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Baptists and Classic Christology

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Baptists and Classic Christology

R. LUCAS STAMPS: Commitment to sola Scriptura did not mean for the Reformers nor for the earliest Baptists that traditional interpretations of Scripture should be jettisoned.

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Benjamin Keach on Baptism and Christ's Descent: An Early Example of Baptist Catholicity

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Benjamin Keach on Baptism and Christ's Descent: An Early Example of Baptist Catholicity

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: Benjamin Keach’s view of baptism is orthodox, Reformed, and radical, and it is an example of how Baptists can pursue catholicity without surrendering their distinctives.

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How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

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How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

D. JEFFREY MOONEY AND ADRIAN MARTINEZ: Creeds provided a core set of beliefs for our congregation so that, regardless of the distinctions of other Christians around us, we could cling to these core elements and celebrate the fact that we were one family in Jesus.

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EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

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EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We believe that all Christians should pray for and seek Christian unity across ecclesial and denominational lines and that Baptists should not reflexively reject principled, ecumenical dialogue with other Christian traditions.

 

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