Baptists and the Christian tradition : towards an evangelical Baptist Catholicity / edited by Matthew Y. Emerson, Christopher W. Morgan, R. Lucas Stamps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Baptists and the Christian Tradition: What Hath Nicaea to Do with Nashville? -- 1. Baptists, the Unity of the Church, and the Christian Tradition -- 2. Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of the Christian Tradition -- 3. Baptists, Classic Trinitarianism, and the Christian Tradition -- 4. Baptists, Classic Christology, and the Christian Tradition -- 5. Baptists, Classic Ecclesiology, and the Christian Tradition -- 6. Baptists, Classic Interpretation, and the Christian Tradition -- 7. Baptists, Corporate Worship, and the Christian Tradition -- 8. Baptists, Baptism, and the Christian Tradition -- 9. Baptists, the Lord's Supper, and the Christian Tradition -- 10. Baptists, Classic Spirituality, and the Christian Tradition -- 11. Baptists, Denominational Structures, and the Christian Tradition -- 12. Southern Baptists, Evangelicalism, and the Christian Tradition -- 13. Baptists, Global Christianity, and the Christian Tradition -- 14. Racial Tension, the Baptist Tradition, and Christian Unity -- 15. Baptist Contributions to the Christian Tradition -- 16. Conclusion: Toward an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity -- Baptists, Bapto-Catholic Baptists, and the Christian Tradition.

In Baptists and the Christian Tradition, editors Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan and Lucas Stamps compile a series of essays advocating "Baptist catholicity." This approach presupposes a critical, but charitable, engagement with the whole church, both past and present, along with the desire to move beyond the false polarities of an Enlightenment-based individualism on the one hand and a pastiche of postmodern relativism on the other