{"product_id":"what-is-a-reformed-baptist-an-overview-of-doctrinal-distinctives","title":"What Is a Reformed Baptist? An Overview of Doctrinal Distinctives","description":"\u003ch6\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Reformed Baptist is a Christian who believes in the great doctrines recovered by the Protestant Reformation, including the sufficiency of Scripture for the church, salvation by God’s free grace, justification by faith alone, the importance of God’s good law and the gospel of Jesus Christ, the centrality of the church in the life of the believer, and the great doctrine of Christian liberty. This book argues that Reformed Baptists are not particularly unique, but are simply biblical Christians who fall within the theological stream of the historic Reformed faith, and who are also baptistic in their doctrine of the church. This is not a polemical work. Rather, it makes a positive case for the doctrines cherished by Reformed Baptists. May this book benefit motivated laymen, broadly evangelical pastors, Baptist pastors, and Reformed paedobaptist pastors who want to understand what their Reformed Baptist brethren believe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Thomas K. Ascol\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Historical Roots\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Confessionalism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Law of God\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Covenant Theology\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: The Law and the Gospel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Calvinism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: The Church\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Regulative Principle of Worship\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Christian Liberty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Hicks\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Senior Pastor at First Baptist of Clinton, Louisiana. He and his wife, Joy, have four children. Tom received his MDiv and PhD degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He serves on the board of directors for Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary and teaches for Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary as well as International Reformed Baptist Seminary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Though they are sometimes misused, labels are important and helpful. In recent years the label “Reformed Baptist” has become more and more common. However, not everyone means the same thing when they use this term, and this has led to some confusion. This book by Tom Hicks helps to solve this problem. He carefully describes a Reformed Baptist theology that is rooted in the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. Hicks has done a service to the Reformed Baptist movement, and I hope that many who are drawn to Reformed Baptist churches will read this book to the encouragement of their souls and the growth of their own convictions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Micah Renihan, \u003c\/strong\u003ePastor at Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Brunswick, Maine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Knowing and understanding wholesome theology is essential for the Christian life. Right living must be based in right believing. Tom Hicks has produced an excellent survey of many of the key doctrines upon which a holy life may be built, faithful to the Word of God and the Baptist Confession of Faith. This is a wonderful book for church members, for those seeking church membership, for study classes and for new believers. I am grateful that we now have this important resource.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--James M. Renihan\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ph.D., President, International Reformed Baptist Seminary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The method that Tom Hicks uses in his discussion of these theological topics should serve as a model for the way we all do theology. With Scripture as the sole authority, Hicks interacts with tested and proven confessional articles from the Second London Confession. Respected and careful theologians provide another guideline for his discussions as he enlists them to give insight on pertinent points of doctrinal development. The analogy of faith is employed as he demonstrates the pervasive textual data in support of his maturing theological propositions. Always included is the element of encouragement that the particular truth provides the Christian in belief and obedience and the formative and vivifying effect that it has on the life and health of the local congregation. The nine chapters, chock-full of edifying biblical and theological development, should provide a helpful resource for pastors and a challenging and edifying guide for study groups in the local church.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Tom J. Nettles, \u003c\/strong\u003eFounding Faculty, The Institute of Public Theology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The value of this book extends beyond Reformed Baptists to benefit the entire Church. None of its eight distinctives are unique to Reformed Baptists. Tom Hicks’ lucid explanations will resonate with all who adhere to creedal orthodoxy, especially those in the Reformed tradition, such as Lutherans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Anglicans, and non-Reformed Baptists. However, churches genuinely subscribing to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith represent the distinctives collectively. The more familiar I became with this book, the more I admired the author’s doctrinal discernment and teaching ability. Readers who will gain the most from it are church members with limited theological training and pastors belonging to other communions. May the Lord make it a means of biblical reformation, theological confirmation, and great spiritual growth to His churches everywhere.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--D. Scott Meadows, \u003c\/strong\u003ePastor, Calvary Baptist Church (Reformed) of Exeter, New Hampshire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You hold in your hands a comprehensive and accessible summary of confessional Reformed Baptist theology. By tracing the roots of this movement from the early church to the Reformation and post-Reformation, Tom Hicks shows the significant continuity between the confessional Reformed Baptist movement and the Puritan and Presbyterian traditions—particularly in the areas of soteriology (the doctrines of grace), hermeneutics, covenant theology, the law of God, and the regulative principle of worship. While I respectfully disagree with those areas of doctrine that distinguish Reformed Baptists and Presbyterians (especially the covenantal baptism of infants of believing parents), I appreciate the irenic spirit that permeates this work. As much of this book is a treatment of Reformed theology, much of it reads like an able defense of the broader Reformed tradition of which I am part. I highly recommend this volume for my Reformed Baptist brothers and sisters and for Presbyterians and other Paedobaptists seeking to better understand 1689 confessionalism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Joel R. Beeke, \u003c\/strong\u003eChancellor and Professor of Homiletics \u0026amp; Systematic Theology\u003cbr\u003ePuritan Reformed Theological Seminary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As Tom Hicks himself says in his introduction, this volume was originally intended as a small book that became a substantially larger book. Such smaller descriptions of Reformed Baptist churches have been written. Dr. Hicks has given us a larger book that is well worthy of consideration. He accomplishes his purpose well. I found many things in it that I appreciate greatly. Here is one particularly good nugget with which I strongly agree: “Reformed Baptists, therefore, are not a species of the genus “Baptist.”  Rather, they are a species of the genus “Reformed.” Reformed Baptists are not a branch of a Baptist tree; rather, they are a branch of the Reformed tree. This is evident in that Reformed Baptists have much in common with other Confessional Reformed churches, but they tend to have many substantial differences with other Baptists. Reformed Baptist identity is catholic first, then confessionally Reformed, and finally Baptist.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Sam Waldron, \u003c\/strong\u003ePresident, Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eAdditional Information\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: 304\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Founders Ministries\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hicks, Tom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040529924337,"sku":"9781965810002","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/8731\/8425\/files\/9781965810002.png?v=1761139546","url":"https:\/\/reformedbookservices.com\/products\/what-is-a-reformed-baptist-an-overview-of-doctrinal-distinctives","provider":"Reformed Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}