In this book Adams defends these positions in an easy to read and incisive manner. This is without a doubt the best short book on this topic, as it deals with all the major arguments concerning both the meaning and the mode of baptism. It has been priced for the widest possible distribution.
+ DALE, JAMES W. BAPTIZO (in the 4 volumes listed below)
Jerry Smith says that these volumes are "calculated to utterly shatter the widespread unfounded contemporary mythology surrounding the meaning and usage of the original Greek words underlying our English word baptism. Dale’s original five volumes (bound in four) constitute the most massive, thorough, accurate, and authoritative study ever made of this word, examining all the known occurrences of baptizo. Absolutely a must reading on this controversial subject! Dale writes in a clear and refreshingly irenic spirit... which will delight and inform scholar, student, and layman alike." Dale spent twenty years writing this study concerning the meaning and mode of baptism. He interacts with all the relevant literature on the subject up to his time, the first volume appearing in 1867 and the last in 1874. J.H. Thayer in his entry in his Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Zondervan, 1962), says of this study: "If I were to utter my first impression, I should break out in unfeigned admiration." Moreover, Thayer noted, concerning Classic Baptism, that "the theory that Baptizo expresses a definite act, ‘mode and nothing but mode,’ is shown to be pitiably helpless when applied to ‘all the Greek literature.’" Dale definitely has had the last word on this subject thus far in history. You can save yourself a lot of time and trouble regarding Baptism and its meaning by picking up these unrivalled volumes. The last three volumes listed below are softcovers and the final (i.e. volume four) volume is actually two volumes bound into one.
Volume 1: Classic Baptism: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Baptizo by the Usage of the Classical Greek Writers (354 pages)
(Softcover, out of print, but we have 7 left in stock) $29.96 (Canadian funds) [$5 off] (Bound photocopy) $9.98 (Canadian funds) [$10 off!] (Hardcover photocopy) $19.00 (Canadian funds) [$10 off!]
Volume 2: Judaic Baptism: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Baptizo as Determined by the Usage of Jewish & Patristic Writers (400 pp.)
(Softcover, almost out of print, but we have 3 left in stock) $29.96 (Canadian funds) [$5 off] (Bound photocopy) $9.98 (Canadian funds) [$10 off!] (Hardcover photocopy) $19.00 (Canadian funds) [$10 off!]
Volume 3: Johannic Baptism: An Inquiry into the meaning of Baptizo as Determined by the usage in the Holy Scripture (428 pages)
(Softcover, almost out of print, but we have 2 left in stock) $29.96 (Canadian funds) [$5 off] (Bound photocopy) $9.98 (Canadian funds) [$10 off!] (Hardcover photocopy) $19.00 (Canadian funds) [$10 off!]
Volume 4: Christic Baptism and Patristic Baptism: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Baptizo in the Holy Scriptures and Patristic Writings (670 pages)
+ WALL, WILLIAM The History of Infant Baptism ([1705, 1711, 1720] 1889, 4 volumes)
Very rare and considered the CLASSIC set in this field of study (due to the detailed and exhaustive research of Mr. Wall), we have published all four volumes -- including the last two which turned Wall's research into a stirring debate.
Volume 1. An Impartial Collection of All Such Passages in the Writers of the Four First Centuries as do Make For or Against Infant Baptism
Volume 2. Several Things that do Help to Illustrate the Said History
Volume 3. Reflections (Reproaches--RB) on (Against--RB) Mr. Wall's History of Infant Baptism (by John Gale)
Volume 4. A Defence of the History of Infant Baptism Against the Reflections of Mr. Gale and Others with An Appendix Containing the Additions and Alterations in the Third Edition... That Are Most Material.
+ MILLIGAN, JAMES A Plea for Infant Baptism (1818)
Exceeds the usefulness of most other books on this topic in that it includes the additional insights regarding God’s covenant relationship with His people (and church) which have been known to be prevalent among the Covenanters.
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