Participating Witness: An Anabaptist Theology of Baptism and the Sacramental Character of the Church

Explores the implications of ecumenism for believers' baptism. Writing from within the tradition of the Radical Reformation, he challenges dominant ecclesiological assumptions and argues that this central practice needs to be reconstrued. Siegrist works constructively to develop a concrete account of believers' baptism that attends closely to the dynamics of divine initiation. He deliberately stretches the traditional Anabaptist conversation to include not just expected voices like Yoder and Marpeck, but also luminaries from the broader Christian tradition. The intent of "Participating Witness" is eminently practical, but its argumentation is carried out with theological rigor. Paperback. Wipf & Stock, 2013. 198 pages.