Concept
Baptism
Overview
Christian rite of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water
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In the original texts
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Baptism consists in applying water to a person "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost," as Christ has commanded. [Matt. 28:19] BAPTISM IS NOT SIMPLY WATER.
Martin Luther, An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
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For if the Word is separated from it, the water is the same as that with which the servant cooks, and may indeed be called a bath-keeper's baptism. But when it is added, as God has ordained, it is a Sacrament, and is called Christ-baptism. Let this be the first part regarding the essence and dignity of the holy Sacrament.
Martin Luther, Martin Luther's Large Catechism
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3. Baptism is the water comprehended in God's command, that is, _we use the water in baptism because God has commanded it._ Without this command of God Baptism would be water only. Before our Lord ascended into heaven, He gave His disciples this command: _"Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."_ Holy Baptism, therefore, is an…
George Mezger, Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use
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Otherwise, either at that time the water of the baptism of Christ was renewed a second time, or if the baptism of Christ was then made perfect by the two waters, the baptism is less perfect which is given now, because it is not given with the water which was given at the hands of John. But either one of these opinions it is impious and sacrilegious to entertain. Therefore Paul gave the baptism of Christ to those who…
of Hippo Augustine, Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy
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However, the first fifteen bishops of Jerusalem were Jews. 'The Christians of Palestine long continued to circumcise. St. John's Christians never received baptism from Christ. Several other Christian societies applied a cautery to the baptized, with a red-hot iron, being determined to the performance of this extraordinary operation by the words of St. John the Baptist, related by St. Luke: "I baptize you with water…
Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
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Philosophers who discussed Baptism
- Albert Schweitzer
- John Locke
- Karl Marx
- Alexander of Hales
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
- Aleksandr Dugin
- Gabriel Biel
- Pietru Caxaro
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Evangelicalism
- Regeneration (theology)
- Jesus
- Faith
- French Revolution
- Hellenistic Judaism
- Florence
- Greek language
- Anglicanism
- Gospel
- Hindus
- Ambrose
- Iran
- Indo-European languages
- Neologism
- Repentance
- Latin
- Apuleius
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Christians
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Sethianism
- Middle Ages
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Greek language.