NEWS: This renaming of CBR and partnership with OBU also represents a shift in our ministry.
2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge
The Lord's Supper and Anglican-Baptist Unity
Sacramentalism and Baptist Ressourcement
Benjamin Keach on Baptism and Christ's Descent: An Early Example of Baptist Catholicity
How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds
EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism
A Baptist Contribution to Political Theology
Catholicity Requires Dogmatic Humility
EBC Manifesto, Article X: Creation and Redemption
What Can We Learn from the Ancient Church?
Defenses of the Creeds in an Alabama Paper
Baptists Promoting Patristic Theology
EBC Manifesto, Article VI: Racial Reconciliation
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.
EBC Manifesto, Article IV: Baptist Distinctives
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.
EBC Manifesto, Article III: Always Reforming
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm the fundamentals of reformational theology, especially as they are expressed in the great solae of the Reformation: fallen humanity can be saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone on the basis of Scripture alone to the glory of God alone.
EBC Manifesto, Article II: Gospel Centrality
In Praise of the Reforming Catholic Confession
EBC Manifesto, Article I: The Priority of God and His Word
Introducing "Evangelical Baptist Catholicity: A Manifesto"
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: Over the next several weeks we plan to blog through each of the eleven articles in the manifesto that we’ve been using as a kind of guiding document here at the Center for Baptist Renewal. In this introductory post, we wish to make a few preparatory comments to set up the series.