Infant Baptism in Historical Perspective (Studies in Christian History and Thought) (Studies in Christian History and Thought)

These important and incisive essays, spanning more than two decades of research and engagement, probe facets and episodes of infant baptisms? fortunes over twenty centuries. The story of paedo baptism is traced from its shadowy beginnings as a variant of faith-baptism, through inflated Reformation defenses as it monopolized baptismal thought and practice, to biblical and ecumenical reevaluations and hopeful contemporary rapprochements across divisive waters.