Book Review
An Historical Study of the
Significance of Infant Baptism
in the Presbyterian Church in America
By Lewis Bevens Schenck, Ph.D.
Davidson College
New Haven : Yale University Press 1940
Contents:
Introduction
I. The Historic Doctrine of the Presbyterian Church
Concerning The Significance of Infant Baptism
II. The Great Awakening and the Development of Revivalism
III. The Threat of Revivalism to the Presbyterian Doctrine of
Children in the Covenant
IV. The Defense of the Doctrine of Children in the Covenant
V. The Resultant Confusion Concerning Children in the Covenant
and the Significance of Infant Baptism
This book is 158 pages of text; 189 if you count sources and the
index.
The strength of this work is that it is a scholarly work on a subject
that tends to be neglected.
It is well researched and has many good points. I don't recommend
it for those who are
easily discouraged by a subject being handled in depth. It lacks
clarity of thought on a couple
of points.
I would like to post other people's thoughts on the book.
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