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  • Dan Williams's Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants

  • Everett Ferguson
  • Journal:
    Scottish Journal of Theology / Volume 55 / Issue 1 / February 2002
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 February 2002, pp. 100-104
    Print publication:
    February 2002

  • Dan Williams challenges the ‘historylessness’ of much contemporary evangelicalism and pleads for a recovery of the great Tradition as a way of ‘renewing evangelicalism’. I agree with the need to pay attention to history but am not so optimistic about its resulting in renewal and find problems in the statement of the case that require further exploration. To follow Tradition is to affirm the authority of scripture. The Rule of Faith itself was a summary of the teaching found in scripture. Theological programmes other than the ‘Bible alone’ have not been notably successful in overcoming division. The early creeds and councils may be accepted as confessions of faith but not as tests of fellowship.

  • Preaching at Epiphany: Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom on Baptism and the Church

  • Everett Ferguson
  • Journal:
    Church History / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / March 1997
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2009, pp. 1-17
    Print publication:
    March 1997

  • From as early as 200 C.E., the church made the spring paschal celebration its primary occasion for baptizing new converts. A week of intense preparation climaxed for the candidates in their reception of baptism early on Easter Sunday. During the fourth century, the preliminary preparation of candidates during Lent included attendance at lectures that gave doctrinal instruction. The catechumens who were ready to receive baptism at the coming Pasch turned in their names to be enrolled for the period of teaching. This registration for the final period of catechetical instruction occurred near the beginning of the year, not long after the feast of Epiphany on 6 January—celebrated in the Eastern church since the fourth century as the feast of the baptism of Christ. The proximity of these two events—a celebration of Christ's baptism and the enrolling of candidates for baptism at the next Pasch—made the time around Epiphany a propitious time for preaching sermons on baptism. Since many catechumens in the fourth century delayed their baptism until old age, many of these sermons took the form of exhortations to baptism in order to encourage the hearers not to postpone baptism but to enroll for the immediate season.

  • Spiritual Circumcision in Early Christianity

  • Everett Ferguson
  • Journal:
    Scottish Journal of Theology / Volume 41 / Issue 4 / November 1988
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 February 2009, pp. 485-497
    Print publication:
    November 1988

  • Modern ecumenical discussions and liturgical reform have given new interest to the ceremonies of Christian initiation. The Reformed churches have traditionally held the view that baptism takes the place of circumcision in the economy of salvation. The interpretations of circumcision in early Christian and patristic literature would suggest a modification, or at least a nuance, to that view.

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