Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802827489
A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Author : Hennie Stander
Publisher : EP BOOKS
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Baptism
ISBN : 9780952791317
This book demonstrates that believer's baptism did not simply disappear after the apostolic era, but continued to be the accepted practice for centuries. Infant baptism became part of ecclesiastical practice gradually, apart from apostolic injunction. For this reason it must be called into question and rejected as a suitable practice for Christian churches.
Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441236279
What can we learn from early Christian imagery about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, a leading scholar of early Christian art and worship, examines multiple dimensions of the early Christian baptismal rite. She explores five models for understanding baptism--as cleansing from sin, sickness, and Satan; as incorporation into the community; as sanctifying and illuminative; as death and regeneration; and as the beginning of the new creation--showing how visual images, poetic language, architectural space, and symbolic actions signify and convey the theological meaning of this ritual practice. Considering image and action together, Jensen offers a holistic and integrated understanding of the power of baptism. The book is illustrated with photos.
Author : G. R. Beasley-Murray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597528595
Baptism In The New Testament In this thorough and well-documented study of the sacrament of Holy Baptism, G.R. Beasley-Murray presents a critical defense of the doctrine of believers' baptism on the basis of the New Testament evidences. The author--one of the leading New Testament scholars in England--is himself a Baptist; but his discussion transcends denominatioal lines. Beasley-Murray begins by discussing various rites that precede Christian baptism historically, and analyzes the relationship between these earlier rites and baptism. From these antecedents--Old Testament ritual washings, Jewish proselyte baptism, the lustrations practiced at Qumran, and the baptism of John the Baptist--the author proceeds to the foundations of Christian baptism in the career of Jesus, its emergence as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, and its development in the New Testament epistolary literature. In his consideration of the doctrine of Christian baptism as ariculated in the New Testament, Beasley-Murray focuses his attention on the necessity of baptism and its relationship to grace, faith, the Spirit, the church, ethics, and hope. A careful examination of the rise and significance of infant baptism follows, and the study concludes with a selected bibliography and several indices.
Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This treatise was written about 400 A.D. Concerning it Aug. in Retract. Book II. c. xviii., says: I have written seven books on Baptism against the Donatists, who strive to defend themselves by the authority of the most blessed bishop and martyr Cyprian; in which I show that nothing is so effectual for the refutation of the Donatists, and for shutting their mouths directly from upholding their schism against the Catholic Church, as the letters and act of Cyprian. Aeterna Press
Author : David F. Wright
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083087819X
In Baptism: Three Views, editor David F. Wright has provided a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views on baptism to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism, Bruce Ware presents the case for believers' baptism, and Anthony Lane argues for a mixed practice.
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857860976
The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave
Author : Kurt Aland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 2004-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592445411
Though Joachim Jeremias' 'Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries' was originally published in 1938, an English translation did not appear until 1960 (based on the revised German edition of 1958). In 1961, Kurt Aland published his response to Jeremias' assertions. This English translation of 'Die Sauglingstaufe im Neuen Testament und in der alten Kirche' originally appeared in 1963. In this point by point refutation of Jeremias' main contentions, Aland insists that there is no direct evidence of infant baptism prior to the third century.
Author : Joe Heschmeyer
Publisher : Catholic Answers Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683572466
Author : Lars Hartman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567085899
A comprehensive examination of all the passages in the New Testament, together with key documents from the apostolic Fathers, which allude to baptism.
