Ben Witherington III is Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary. His publications include Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper (2007), The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible (2007), What's in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament (2009), and The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Wesleyanism, and Pentecostalism, Revised and Expanded Edition (2015).
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Introduction 1 Getting Our Feet Wet The antecedents of Christian baptism outside the New Testament 2 John's Baptism Totally Immersed in His Work Pre-Christian initiations in the New Testament and pre-sacramental texts 3 Parting the Waters The beginnings of water baptism as a Christian rite Acts 4 Trial by Water Ordeal Paul and burial with Christ 5 Breaking the Waters of Birth Water baptism in the Johannine literature? 6 Down in the Flood Baptism in Hebrews and I Peter 7 A Rite of Passage A theology of water baptism in the New Testament 8 Postscript Coming Up for Air Where do we go from here?
(Witherington) offers pastoral guidance and correctives for both baptismal practices so that the fuller goals for Christian baptism will be achieved. -David A. deSilva, Trustees' Professor of New Testament and Greek, Ashland Theological Seminary ...careful, meticulous, and very well reasoned... -- Jeff Borden -- iCrucified