The Contestable Church
Schelin, Christopher L![The Contestable Church](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/457/45733867/CHSBZCOP0345733867.jpg)
Baptists have a well-earned reputation as a contentious people. Lacking a centralized authority to settle disputes, and defending the conscience of each believer, they have excelled at conflict and division. But perhaps the resolution of this scandal is not for Baptists to stop fighting, but to learn to fight better. Christopher L. Schelin reconsiders Baptist ecclesiology from the perspective that conflict is not merely inevitable but is essen...