Infant baptism and the disposition to saving faith
Abstract
Reformed accounts of infant baptism are usually covenantal and promissory in nature. They are about bringing the child into the ambit of the visible church in the hope the infant will own the faith upon reaching the age of reason. This paper sets out an alternative Reformed account of baptism, drawing on the Scottish confessional tradition. On this account, infants have a disposition to faith conveyed to them in baptism that will in due course become dispositional faith exercised in saving faith. Thus, baptism involves regeneration – or something close to it.
Citation
Crisp , O D 2022 , ' Infant baptism and the disposition to saving faith ' , Scottish Journal of Theology , vol. 75 , no. 4 , pp. 363-373 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930622000631
Publication
Scottish Journal of Theology
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0036-9306Type
Journal article
Description
The research that went into the composition of this article was made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.Collections
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