‘One Baptism for the Remission of Sins’: Exploring the Harmony Between Christian Platonism, Reformed Soteriology, and Credobaptism

Abstract In recent years, Protestant theology—particularly of the Reformed and evangelical variety—has shown an increased interest in historical retrieval. Various theologians have engaged work mining Great Tradition Christianity order to resource contemporary theology with wisdom from past. Presupposed this retrieval is a claim that by no means foregone conclusion for Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox theologians: notion Protestants also lay ‘one, holy, catholic, apostolic church.’ working on believe they are drawing their own heritage, not heritage another. While it may appear counterintuitive do so, paper seeks defend together three terms commonly considered disparate: Christian Platonism, soteriology, Baptist sacramentalism. It disputes two popular insistences: first, soteriology depends nominalism contradicts realism Christian-Platonic metaphysical tradition; second, view baptism amounts mere symbolism (and thus another sense). This therefore argues only evangelicals, broadly speaking, rightful specifically, its metaphysics), but Baptists particular share heritage.