There will be a symposium celebrating the work of Everett Ferguson [wiki] at Lipscomb University in Nashville. The symposium, scheduled for June 4, 2010, is centered around Ferguson’s recent tome, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries. The participants include Carl Holladay, J. Patout Burns, Robin M. Jensen, Thomas M. Finn, Everett Ferguson, and Abraham J. Malherbe. Ferguson’s book, Backgrounds of Early Christianity is widely popular in the field and I expect this recent book with its detailed treatment of Baptism to become a standard text for years to come.
HT: Vita Brevis
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