I
t is indeed a signal honor for me to be asked by Dr. Orpheus
J. Heyward to write a forward for his treatise on Christian
baptism. I am unpardonably proud to attach my name
to such a monumental, studied and theological work. While
reading his treatise I could not help but be reminded of the words
of Baba Dioum, “ in the end we will conserve only what we love,
we will love only what we understand, we will understand only
what we are taught”.
I was favorably impressed with the way Dr. Heyward skillfully,
with surgical sureness and skill of a forensic defender, dealt with
the question of Christian baptism. His arguments are cogent
and go directly to the question which makes them unanswerable
particularly his argument on Matthew 28, Mark 16 and…