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The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology and it is very enlightening. I believe I fall in the 1689 Federalism camp, though I have not read much of NCT...

Somebody else already suggested r/Reformed, but I'll suggest a couple of less known subs. There's r/ReformedBaptist and r/1689Federalism. They're both low traffic subs, and the latter has just recently started, but there's still some good info to look into there.

Right now is a pretty exciting time for Baptists due to the "rediscovery" of our Reformed/ Calvinist roots. It's difficult to find Baptist scholarship of this caliber, but some names to look for include Richard Barcellos, James Renihan, and Pascal Denault. Some historic names to look into are Benjamin Keach, William Kiffin, John Gill, William Gadsby, Charles Spurgeon, A.W. Pink, and James Petigrue Boyce.

One place I'd recommend starting from is some books. Like I said, Baptists haven't written on this stuff in a while, so there are no recent Systematic Theologies that I'm aware of. The closest you'll find is A Body of Doctinal Divinity by John Gill (PDF warning) or Abstract Of Systematic Theology by James Petigru Boyce. If you prefer hard copies, you can probably find them on Amazon.

Next, if you've been studying Reformed Theology, you should be aware that Baptists have their own distinct Covenant Theology that does not lead to Infant Baptism. It's really unfortunate that so many Baptists discover Covenant Theology and throw it away because it leads to Infant Baptism. In our development of Covenant Theology, called 1689 Federalism, we use the idea of the covenants to formulate "Believer's Baptism". There others who reject our 1689 Federalism for what is called New Covenant Theology, which attempts to bridge Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism. All of this can be found online at Wikipedia if you want to read more about it. There's also some scholarship available on the topic. The Distinctives of Baptist Covenant Theology by Pascal Denault is a wonderful book to get started on this subject.

Finally, I encourage you to read the historic Baptist confessions. You can find the 1689 LBCF here. It is based off of the Westminster Confession that the Presbyterians use. It's almost identical, except for a few changes of wording, and it's Congregationalist and Credobaptist affirmations. The Baptists of the 17th Century based their confession on the Westminster Standards to show their unity in Reformed doctrine. Although most Reformed Paedobaptists like to say that we're not "R"eformed, there is very little difference between us in the grand scheme of things, and Baptists holding to the 1689 LBCF and 1646 LBCF are always included in discussions relating to historic Reformed faith.

I hold to 1689. Came from hardcore dispensationalism (like, I've learned about the red heifer while in Israel), became convinced that there was no such thing as a rapture so I must be Historic Premill. From there, continued to study- I read Continuity and Discontinuity, landed in NCT and then sort of kept developing, then read From the Finger of God and was convinced of threefold division of the law (I had previously been convinced of the 3-covenant structure of Covenant Theology, but leaned Westminster because those were the only guys talking Covenant). Came across The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology, and it seemed more Biblical. So here we are.