Is church discipline really necessary? One sixteenth-century Anabaptist reformer certainly thought so. A contemporary of Luther and Zwingli, Balthasar Hubmaier believed that church discipline was so important that he included the doctrine in every major area of his theology. Not only did church discipline appear in his doctrine of humanity, salvation, and the church, as a theoretical construct, but he also included practical instructions regarding its implementation in the life of the church. In this book Goncharenko examines Hubmaier’s teaching on discipline and considers its relevance to the church today.
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Paige Patterson is President and Professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He previously served as President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, President of Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, and he was twice elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention. His passion is expressed as scholarship on fire with and manifested in missions and evangelism.