BAPTISM AS INSTRUMENT OF GRACE IN BAPTIST’S INTERPRETATION
Journal: Doxa
Year: 2018

The article proves that although usually Baptists looks like antisacramentalists, the early confession of faith clearly demonstrates the sacramental character and language of the Baptist understanding of water baptism. For the Baptist tradition, an instrumental understanding of baptism is not alien, they agree that baptism is as a means of grace, and this article clearly demonstrates it. Baptists do not really agree with the «mechanical» understanding of baptism, as a means of conveying grace, r