The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century O. Mangasarian when retributive justice appeared to

when retributive justice appeared to be not assured or absent

using "hermeneutics of tradition"

the confusion of accommodating resentment

Alternative Traditions

Previously referred to as the No Blame Approach

The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century O. Mangasarian when retributive justice appeared toThis meticulously researched book recounts how the early sixteenth century Reformers, steering a course between the old Latin rites on the one hand and the Anabaptist movement on the other, developed a baptismal service that they understood to be reformed according to Scripture. Hughes Oliphant Old's study shows the Reformed baptismal rite to be well thought out, pastorally sensitive, and theologically profound.