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The baptism of Jesus by means of John the Baptizer is among the theologically richest narratives within the Gospels, touching the transition from the previous to the hot covenant, the doctrines of water and Holy Spirit baptism, and the doctrine of the Trinity, to call purely the main major of themes.

In The Baptism of Jesus the Christ, Ralph Allan Smith addresses each one of those components, aiming particularly to reply to James D. G. Dunn's view that Jesus' baptism and the present of the Spirit are essentially exact occasions, to restore John Calvin's view of the baptism of Jesus as critical to realizing Christian baptism, and to signify instructions for re-thinking the doctrine of God's attributes within the mild of the absolutely own interplay of pop, Son, and Spirit mirrored within the baptismal narrative.

"In this awesome and intensely invaluable ebook now we have a very good precis and research of assorted Protestant and Catholic perspectives of Christian baptism and of Jesus' personal baptism. extra, we now have a truly complete explication of the Biblical world-view that underlies the concept that of water baptism and its which means. possibly most significantly, notwithstanding, is the truth that the writer is a missionary at the entrance traces of Christian evangelism, who therefore needs to take into consideration the which means of baptism very usually, with the outcome that his dialogue teems with sensible and pastoral insights."
--James B. Jordan
Biblical Theological Seminary
St. Petersburg, Russia

"Combining cautious exegesis with expansive theological imaginative and prescient, missionary theologian Ralph Smith sheds clean gentle on Christian baptism. Nowhere will you discover one of these thorough and illuminating biblical-theological exploration of the 'one baptism' that's the root of all baptisms, the baptism of Jesus Christ, Priest after the order of Melchizedek."
--Peter J. Leithart
New St. Andrews College
Moscow, Idaho

Ralph Allan Smith is the Pastor of the Mitaka Evangelical Church in Tokyo, Japan, and the Director of the Covenant Worldview Institute. he's the writer of Paradox and fact (2003), The everlasting Covenant (2003), and Trinity and fact (2004).