1816 ROBERT HALL. First American Edition - Terms of Communion between Baptists and Paedobaptists. Jonathan Edwards Ware [Wise]

Ware [Wise]

Brierre [1797-1881]

A scarce volume

Printed wrappers

1816 ROBERT HALL. First American Edition - Terms of Communion between Baptists and Paedobaptists. Jonathan Edwards Ware [Wise]A rather scarce imprint. This 1816 first American edition of Robert Halls Terms of Communion brought the fierce British theological debate directly into the fracturing ecclesiastical landscape of the early American Republic. While many Baptists had deeply exclusionary tendencies, Hall, one of the most famous Baptists of the era, argued instead for open communion. In his view, the doctrine of baptism was a secondary theological practice since it was