Apostasy: A Study in the Epistle to the Hebrews and in Baptist History

by Dale Moody

"Throughout his many years of teaching and preaching, Dale Moody has consistently warned Baptists that an anemic notion of 'eternal security' has displaced the biblical teaching of 'the perseverance of the saints.' In this passionate exhortation about the danger of apostasy, readers will hear what generations of students heard in Moody's classroom–a fresh examination of biblical texts too often neglected or domesticated for confessional purposes. Never one to mince words or to fail to point out his disagreements with other scholars, Moody's exegesis illumines the starkness of the warning and the urgent call to holiness in persevering faith."

— Molly Marshall, Associate Professor of Theology
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Dale Moody taught for thirty seven years at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the last twenty seven as the Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology. His education includes Baylor University (B.A., 1941), Southern Seminary (Th.M., 1942; Th.D.,1947), and Oxford University (Ph.D.,1965). He has also studied at Columbia, Union Theological Seminary (with Tillich), Zurich (with Brunner), Basel (with Barth), and Heidelberg. In addition to teaching at Southern Seminary, Moody has taught at the Gregorian University in Rome and at the Institute for Advanced Theological Study in Jerusalem. Ordained as a Baptist minister in 1932, he has served churches in Texas, Indiana, and Kentucky.

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