A Defense of a Baptistic View of Baptism

David Allen has an extensive twelve-part series of posts on water baptism defending a Baptistic perspective. "These articles are a slightly revised version of my chapter “Dipped for Dead: The Proper Mode of Baptism,” in Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches, Thomas White, Jason Duesing, Malcolm Yarnell, eds., (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008), 81-106. Here are the individual titles with links.

• Baptism: Must It Be by Immersion? (Part 1)
• “If the Trumpet Gives an Uncertain Sound”: Baptists Waffle on Baptism (Part 2)
• Baptists Vs. Baby Baptizers (Part 3)
• Does “Baptism” Always Mean “Immersion”? – Baptists and Baptism – (Part 4)
• Meaning and Use of Baptizō in the New Testament – Baptism and Baptists (Part 5)
• Baptismal Theology from Greek Prepositions – Baptism and Baptists (Part 6)
• The Misrepresentation of “BAPTIDZO”: Baptism and Baptists (Part 7)
• Baptism & Baptists –“What did Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, & Wesley Say?” (Part 8)
• How Luther and Calvin Led the Way for Sprinkling Instead of Immersion in Baptism – Baptism and Baptists (Part 9)
• Archaeological Evidence for Baptism by Immersion – Baptists & Baptism Part (10)
• Baptism as Immersion: Theological Evidence – Baptism & Baptists (Part 11)
• Conclusion – Baptism and Baptists (Part 12)