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List of Contributors

Select Publications of R.E.O. White

Biographical Sketch: Revd R.E.O. White, BD, MA

Gordon W. Martin

Introduction: Baptism in Recent Debate

Stanley E. Porter

Anthony R. Cross

Part I The New Testament

Baptism and Initiation in the Cult of Isis and Sarapis

Brook W.R. Pearson

`In Such a Manner it is Fitting for Us to Fulfil All Righteousness': Reflections on the Place of Baptism in the Gospel of Matthew

John Nolland

Mark 1.4, Baptism and Translation

Stanley E. Porter

Baptism in Mark and Luke

Edward W. Burrows

References to Baptism in the Fourth Gospel

John E. Morgan-Wynne

Baptism and Conversion in John: A Particular Baptist Reading

J. Ramsey Michaels

From `John's Baptism' to `Baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus': The Significance of Baptism in Luke-Acts

Joel B. Green

`One Baptism' (Ephesians 4.5): A Challenge to the Church

Anthony R. Cross

Baptism, Conscience and the Resurrection: A Reappraisal of 1 Peter 3.21

John E. Colwell

On Board the Eschatological Ark of God: Noah-Deucalion and the `Phrygian Connection' in 1 Peter 3.19-22

Larry J. Kreitzer

Dying with Christ: The Origin of a Metaphor?

Alastair Campbell

`Baptized' as Metaphor?

James D.G. Dunn

Two Opposing Views on Baptism with/by the Holy Spirit and of 1 Corinthians 12.13: Can Grammatical Investigation Bring Clarity?

Matthew Brook O'Donnell

Initiation and Eschatology

Neville Clark

Part II The Church

Infant Dedication in the Early Church

David F. Wright

Baptismal Preparation under the Ministry of St John Chrysostom in Fourth-Century Antioch

Raymond F.G. Burnish

Baptism in the Reformed Confessions and Catechisms

Geoffrey W. Bromiley

An Eighteenth-Century Baptismal Controversy in Scotland

Derek B. Murray

Open and Closed Membership among Scottish Baptists

Kenneth Roxburgh

Baptism and Inclusivity in the Church

Timothy Bradshaw

Baptism for the Initiated

Paul Beasley-Murray

Index of References

Index of Authors