Reflections on the Water: Understanding God and the World Through the Baptism of Believers

by Paul S. Fiddes (Editor)

In a collection of essays, six British Baptists seek to show how the act of believer's baptism can help us to understand the creative activity of God in the natural world, human society, political life, and the Christian community, and how it can lead us to contemplate the nature of the true God who calls people into relationships. Reflections on the Water, the fourth volume of the Regent's Study Guides jointly produced with Regent's Park College of Oxford, concludes with a fresh approach to ecumenical conversation and to Baptist identity through a response to the essays by a New Testament scholar of the Church of England.

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Paul S. Fiddes is an English Baptist theologian and novelist. Fiddes is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford, Principal Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford and a former Chairman of the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He holds a DPhil in Theology from Oxford (1975) and was awarded a DD from Oxford (2004). He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest, and a Fellow of the British Academy (2020).