Baptist Catholicity

On Being Baptist and Remaining Baptist: CBR and Retrieval

On Being Baptist and Remaining Baptist: CBR and Retrieval

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: How and why CBR is distinct when it comes to retrieving the Christian past for the sake of contemporary renewal in our doctrine and practice.

Why We Support Adding the Nicene Creed to the Baptist Faith and Message (2000)

Why We Support Adding the Nicene Creed to the Baptist Faith and Message (2000)

We wholeheartedly support this proposed amendment and pray that Southern Baptists will eagerly and joyfully adopt this motion through the appropriate channels, beginning at this year’s annual convention.

2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

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.

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

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.

How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds

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.

EBC Manifesto, Article XI: Principled Ecumenism

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.

EBC Manifesto, Article X: Creation and Redemption

EBC Manifesto, Article X: Creation and Redemption

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We affirm the continuity of God’s works of creation and redemption. Therefore, we affirm the goodness of all honorable vocations, the importance of embodied habits and rituals, and the value of aesthetic beauty for Christian life and worship.