Abstract
Today paedobaptists increasingly recognize faith-baptism as the norm of Christian baptism, both in theology and in practice. Equally Baptists must recognize how minimal and rare were challenges to infant baptism prior to the Reformation. What is needed now is a programme of joint Bible study involving participants who start from different baptismal positions. This might lead to greater support for the ‘dual-practice’ or ‘reconciled diversity’ approach which acknowledges believers’ and infant baptism as ‘equivalent alternatives’. But failure to reach agreement must not lead to the relegation of baptism to an unimportant issue. More important than reaching agreement on infant baptism is to grant baptism the decisive place that it has in apostolic Christianity.
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