Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal

Full Version – Volume 2.2

Larry Oats — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:20:23 +0000

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Introduction

Marty Marriott — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:19:00 +0000

The purpose of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal is to provide for our constituency, and for others who may be interested, articles from a Baptist, dispensa-tional, and conservative theological position. Articles are academic and practical, biblical and theological, focused on the needs of the pastor and church leader, and, above all, faithful to God’s Word. [...]

The Water That Divides: Baptism and Baptists

Larry Oats — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:18:10 +0000

By: Larry R. Oats[1] In an article called “We Believe In: Water Baptism,” Arthur Farstad identifies a problem in the broad evangelical world: If one were writing an article on baptism for a Baptist publication – or a Church of Christ, Presbyterian, or Roman Catholic one – the task would not be too difficult. Each [...]

Mark 13:32 Problem or Paradigm?

Maranatha — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:17:35 +0000

By: Timothy Miller[1] “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father” (Mk 13:32). Mark may not have even slightly hesitated his pen stroke as he recorded these words of Jesus.[2] His readers, however, have spent hours over those three [...]

World View and Marriage

Maranatha — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:16:25 +0000

Michael Dean[1] Marriage, as a legal and cultural institution and as it has historically been known, is under attack in America. The purpose of this article is to address the legal definition of marriage and draw conclusions concerning how the Christian should respond to the attempts to modify the traditional and biblical definitions of this [...]

An Issue of Conscience

Maranatha — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:15:43 +0000

By James T. Collard[1] There is a tremendous amount of controversy and misunderstanding surrounding the nature and function of the conscience today. A good example of this was seen in a 2009 article of Christian Century. The author stated that her alma mater (which was left unspecified) recently made a switch from using social security [...]

Book Reviews

Fred Moritz — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:14:03 +0000

Robert L. Thomas. Evangelical Hermeneutics – The New Versus the Old. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2002. 524 pages. Reviewed by Fred Moritz. Post-modernism has affected the thinking of evangelical theologians, and it bleeds down into their writing and thus into the pulpits and churches across America and around the world. Much of the argument over theological [...]

Full Version – Volume 2.1

Larry Oats — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:08:27 +0000

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Introduction

Marty Marriott — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:07:03 +0000

The purpose of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal is to provide for our constituency, and for others who may be interested, articles from a Baptist, dispensational, and conservative theological position.

The Landmark Controversy: A Study in Baptist History and Polity

Fred Moritz — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:06:10 +0000

The purpose of this article is to trace the origins of the Landmark controversy and to see its ramifications for ecclesiology and local church polity. It will be necessary to briefly examine the preceding Campbellite controversy in order to set the stage for it.