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John’s Baptism as a Symbolic Enactment of the Return from Exile
Tyndale Bulletin, 2022 John’s baptism continues to be the subject of much discussion among biblical scholars. Attempts to trace its origin to Essene ritual washings or proselyte baptism have proven unconvincing as are recent arguments against the traditional site on the lower ...
Joel R. White
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Spiritual and Moral Implications of Baptism According to Mark the Hermit
Collectanea Theologica, 2021 By taking up the problem of baptism in his writings, Mark the Hermit responds to the tendencies of the Messalians, who denied the value of baptism. Pointing to the consequences of the sacrament, he emphasizes its effectiveness in terms of being rescued ...
Wojciech Kamczyk
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Baptism and Church Growth in the Church of Norway
Teologisk Tidsskrift, 2021 This article discusses the results of a research project on the relationship between statistically significant church growth in four selected Church of Norway parishes and the practice of baptism in their Sunday service.
Werner G. Jeanrond
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Slegs eenmaal gedoop - Sans Jamais Le Réitérer
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1994 Baptized but once - Sans Jamais Le Réitérer In principle re-baptism is rejected by almost all churches and theologians. However, since some regard infant baptism as invalid, they encourage those who have not been baptized in faith and obedience to have ...
P. C. Potgieter
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A critical study of Pentecostal understanding of the baptism of the Holy Spirit in Acts
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 In faith and practice, Pentecostals put emphasis on practical issues as well as spiritual experience in their theological understanding and doctrinal teachings. The Pentecostals take their doctrine from certain empirical events.
Kalis Stevanus +4 more
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’Lest I Make You a Tertullian’: Early Anabaptist Baptismal Narratives and Patristics
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019 Anabaptists have long been thought to have been ‘biblicists’ and shunned reading patristic literature. But a close analysis of the debates Anabaptists had with Magisterial Reformers shows that the Anabaptists developed an extensive history of baptism ...
Alexis-Baker Andy
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Kerkorde en doop – Toegespits op twee gereformeerde kerkordes
In die Skriflig, 2019 Church order and baptism – with reference to two reformed church orders: The purpose of a church order is not an end itself, but to serve the church in its calling as an institute of the Christian faith.
Piet J. Strauss
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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2021 In the article, the subject of description included continuous and discontinuous autosemantic lexical units used in the medieval language (until the end of the 15th century) to denote two different religious rites described in the New Testament and the ...
Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur
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Toward a Baptismal Ecclesiology: Faith Content and Ecclesial Context [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2020 This article focuses on the study of the essence and structure of the church in the context of contemporary Orthodox ecclesiology. A theological definition and dogma on the Church do not yet exist, though XIX and XX century’s theologians have made ...
Archpriest John Erickson
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