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Death by Baptism

Sacramental Liberation in a Culture of Fear
  • ISBN-13: 9781506470047
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Frank G. Honeycutt
  • Price: AUD $43.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 24/08/2021
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Christian sacraments [HRCV1]
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Our days are filled with a variety of known and lurking fears. Christians who name Jesus as Lord on Sundays are inundated with stories (real and imagined) inducing fear and caution throughout the week: random violence, health concerns, the perceived threat of people different from us, and economic worries, to name a few. News sources and national political leaders manipulate these fears in a fashion that threatens (and sometimes usurps) the church's ultimate trust in Christ. A pastoral assumption: at the core of this national anxiety is the looming fear of death, spawning various supplemental protections that have little to do with the promises of Christ. This fear of death (and the false promises claiming to shield us from such) may prompt us to nudge the One we call Lord to the margins of daily life, or even solely to the afterlife--a savior we'll all meet in heaven one day but whose quaint teachings have little to do with problems we're now facing. In this book, gifted storyteller Frank G. Honeycutt calls on his many years of pastoral experience to examine one of the most stunning (and overlooked) theological claims of the New Testament: how baptism radically unites followers of Christ in his death and resurrection. In baptism, we have already died (Romans 6). Disciples commence life in the kingdom on this side of the grave. Believing this with theological rigor and trust relieves personal (and corporate) anxiety about any day in the future when a believer stops breathing.
Frank G. Honeycutt is the author of ten books and numerous magazine articles. His publishing interests include homiletics, adult conversion, and parish practice of the historic catechumenate, an ancient, protracted process of adult formation leading to baptism. He has over thirty years of experience as an ELCA pastor in small-town, rural, and urban settings in Virginia and South Carolina.
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