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Towards Baptist Catholicity
Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision
Foreword by Paul Avis
Series: Studies in Baptist History and Thought
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
322 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.64 in
- Paperback
- 9781597528320
- Published: August 2006
$40.00 / £33.00
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A Baptist ecumenical theologian, Steven R. Harmon is the author of Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press, 2016), Ecumenism Means You, Too: Ordinary Christians and the Quest for Christian Unity (Cascade Books, 2010), Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision (Paternoster/Wipf & Stock, 2006), and Every Knee Should Bow: Biblical Rationales for Universal Salvation in Early Christian Thought (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), along with numerous chapters contributed to other books, journal articles, reviews, and general readership publications. He has represented the Baptist World Alliance in international ecumenical dialogues with the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, in pre-conversations with representatives of the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, and as a member of the plenary Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches. Dr. Harmon is Visiting Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, USA and previously served on the faculties of Samford University's Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama (2008-2010) and Campbell University Divinity School in Buies Creek, North Carolina (1998-2008), as Visiting Professor at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina (2007), and as Adjunct Professor of Ecumenical Theology at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina (2012).
"This is the best book I have read connecting ecclesiology, ecumenism, and the Baptist tradition with the gospel imperative for Christian unity. Steven Harmon's proposal for a Baptist version of the Oxford Movement has revolutionary possibilities, in the Copernican sense of the word, and deserves to be taken seriously. Well researched and well argued -- a work of scholarly acumen and theological verve."
-- Timothy George is Dean of Beeson Divinity School,
Samford University, and
an executive editor of 'Christianity Today'
"Harmon's essays provide a welcome antidote to the poison of anti-traditionalism imbibed in Christians influenced by the individualistic, anti-religious currents characteristic of modernity. Harmon not only shows how unacknowledged traditions covertly shape a Baptist tradition of anti-traditionalism, but also how critical and constructive retrievals of ancient catholic theological, liturgical and exegetical traditions can illumine important elements of the Baptist vision now rather obscured. A must read in serious ecumenical theology for Christians concerned with living in and living out their faith traditions -- whether Baptist, Catholic, or evangelical -- in our era."
-- Terrence W. Tilley, University of Dayton
"This is an extremely learned and important book by an author well grounded in the history of theology. As a non-Baptist, I can only surmise its value and impact within the Baptist community. I should think its potential for rethinking Baptist identity could be considerable. Speaking as an ecumenist, I would venture to opinion that Dr. Harmon's book could have a major role to play among all interested in the unity of the church. Its suggestion of a postmodern Baptist hermeneutic of tradition will interest many concerned about ecumenical advance."
-- William G. Rusch, Executive Director,
Foundation for a Conference on Faith and Order in
North America, and former Director of the
Commission on Faith and Order of the
National Council of Churches of Christ