Historic Baptist Positions on Communion

by | Mar 20, 2020 | Rice Lecture Series

2020 William R. Rice Lecture Series

Date: Friday, March 20, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Michael Haykin
Theme: “Historic Baptist Positions on Communion”

Lectures:


Lecture 1: “Perspectives from the Puritan Era” – PDF
Lecture 2: “Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century” – PDF
Lecture 3: “Controversies: Debate about the Table” – PDF

About Our Speaker

Dr. Haykin currently serves as the Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He is the author of a number of books, including The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century (E. J. Brill, 1994); One heart and one soul: John Sutcliff of Olney, his friends, and his times (Evangelical Press, 1994); Kiffin, Knollys and Keach: Rediscovering Our English Baptist Heritage (Reformation Today Trust, 1996); ‘At the Pure Fountain of Thy Word’: Andrew Fuller as an Apologist (Paternoster Press, 2004); Jonathan Edwards: The Holy Spirit in Revival (Evangelical Press, 2005); The God who draws near: An introduction to biblical spirituality (Evangelical Press, 2007); The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers (Reformation Trust, 2009); and Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church (Crossway, 2011).

He and his wife, Alison, have two grown children, Victoria and Nigel

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