The question of baptism, who should be baptized and why, is not just a question about the sacraments. It is a question that is integrally connected to the way we read the Scriptures (hermeneutics), the way we understand redemptive history, the way we understand the biblical covenants, the Christian life, and the church. The Reformed churches have a distinct approach to each of these related questions so that our approach to baptism is the result of a web of biblical doctrines that must be held together. At the same time, many evangelicals have never heard a biblical case for infant baptism. In this series we will walk through the biblical and confessional teaching about God’s covenant with Abraham and what it means for how we read Scripture, how we understand the Old Testament, the old covenant (they are distinct), how we relate the old to the new, and what that means for our view of the church and for the practice of baptism.

Here is the complete Heidelcast series on covenant theology and infant baptism.