Baptism and the Anglican Reformers

1. “Bromiley begins by discussing ‘traditionalist’ (i.e., pre-Reformation) perspectives before turning to the Lutheran, continental Calvinist, and English Reformers. He is careful to highlight both the continuities and discontinuities not only between the ‘traditionalists’ and the Reformers, but also among the different segments of the Reformers themselves. The resulting overview feels compact yet thorough, serving as a solid introduction to perennial questions and controversies pertaining to baptism as they arose during the Reformation.” - James Clark, Review Editor,The North American Anglican.2. “The book is somewhat schematically organized into four chapters: ‘The Sacrament,’ ‘The Participants,’ ‘The Rite,’ and ‘The Grace.’ Each chapter, in turn, has four sections. One might wonder whether such symmetry can do justice, without remainder, to the complexity of the subject matter. It does, and it does so with minmimal and motivated redundancy.” - Mark S. LeTourneaus, Weber State University, in Anglican and Episcopal History, Volume 93, Number 3, September 2024, 691-692 pp.

Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1915-2009) was Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He gained his MA at Cambridge and his PhD and Dlitt in Edinburgh, and was previously lecturer and vice principal at Tyndale Hall, Bristol, and Rector of St Thomas’ Episcopal Church, Edinburgh.