Laying Hold of our Tradition: Free Will Baptists and the Laying on of Hands
by Joshua R. Colson The laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Spirit after baptism is foreign to most modern Baptists. In the 1600s, however, a movement emerged among English General Baptists to institute the practice in their churches. The inclusion of the rite as a gospel ordinance in both the Standard Confession (1660)[1] and the Orthodox Creed (1679) makes this fact plain.[2] What’s more? Although discontinued “by the...
Pining for the Glory Days: A Review of Randall Balmer’s Evangelicalism in America
by Joshua R. Colson The term evangelicalism means many things to many people. In contemporary usage, the term often refers to a bloc of white, conservative Christian voters. Indeed, pundits and pollsters regularly identify evangelicals with the Republican Party, free markets, and politically conservative causes. The identification of evangelicals with the Republican Party is apparently justified by the fact that eighty-one percent of...
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