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The ritual of baptism as status-transformation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2001 The ritual of baptism as status-transformation. Rituals are social mechanisms that have the very important function of effecting transitions in social and/or religious roles and status.
Pieter van Staden
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Tertullian’s Understanding of Baptism
Amasya İlahiyat Dergisi, 2020 Tertullian, who was the founder of Latin Christianity and also known as the father of the Latin Church, probably lived between (150-220? AD). Born in a pagan family, Tertullian converted to Christianity between 180-195.
Nuh YILMAZ
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Onherhaalbaar, onontdoenbaar: Die doop as simbool van eenheid in die kerk
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 Irrevocably singular: Baptism as a symbol of unity in the church. In this article I conduct a phenomenological analysis of the concept ‘one baptism’ in Ephesians 4:4−6.
David A. van Oudtshoorn
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L'Atelier du CRH, 2015 Medieval theologians think the social link in terms of caritas, a spiritual love conveyed by the Holy Spirit and irrigating the whole society. This caritas is provided by the sacraments that punctuate the life of the Christian, first and foremost by the ...
Axelle Neyrinck
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1985 Huldrich Zwingli's 'Von dem Touff, vom Widertouff und vom Kindertouff': Some aspects of Zwringli's theological thought The aim of this article is to let Zwingli speak for himself as he expresses himself in his treatise on baptism: Von dem Touff, vom ...
D. J. Smith
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TheoLogica, 2023 While much has been written on the moral and metaphysical status of fetuses in Christian bioethics, little thought has been given to how we might characterize the afterlives of the unborn, especially of those human biological individuals who die before ...
Amber Griffioen
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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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Infant Baptism in the First-Century Presupposition Pool
Tyndale Bulletin, 2015 The debate over infant baptism in the apostolic church was classically captured in the exchanges between Joachim Jeremias and Kurt Aland. Most debates have focussed on ‘reading between the lines’ of first-century Christian texts, and have yielded little ...
Steven A. Nicoletti
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Religions, 2020 The burial of unbaptized fetuses and infants, as seen through texts and archaeology, exposes friction between the institutional Church and medieval Italy’s laity.
Madison Crow, Colleen Zori, Davide Zori
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