About the Author Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part One: From First Baptist to the First Century __Chapter 1: "My Heritage as a Southern Baptist" __Chapter 2: Learning to Read __Chapter 3: Death of a Seminary __Chapter 4: Aquiring the Pearl Part Two: Scripture, Tradition, and the Church __Chapter 5: Presuppositions __Chapter 6: The Proof-Texts __Chapter 7: The Nature of Tradition __Chapter 8: The Structure and Worship of the Early Church __Chapter 9: The Protestant Transformation __Chapter 10: Credo Epilogue