You and Your Household: The Biblical Case for Infant Baptism

Does the Bible teach infant baptism? Or, is baptism only to be given to “believers”? If you are struggling to understand these questions, this short study will help. This book makes the case that the Bible teaches we should baptize the children of Christians in infancy.

The view is expressed in the great Reformation confessions (Genevan, Helvetic, Belgic, Westminster, etc.) and catechisms (Heidelberg, Westminster Larger & Shorter). Many of the greatest minds of the Christian Church defended this view, men such as John Calvin, John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge, Benjamin B. Warfield, and many others. While other traditions hold to infant baptism, the Reformed “covenantal” view stands in opposition to Roman Catholicism’s and Eastern Orthodoxy’s understanding of this practice.