| Description |
xxii, 953 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"This magisterial volume is a comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Survey of literature -- Antecedents to Christian baptism. Washings for purification in Greco-Roman paganism ; Words from the bapt- root in classical and Hellenistic Greek ; Jewish washings, baptismal movements, and proselyte baptism ; John the Baptizer -- Baptism in the New Testament. Baptism of Jesus, I ; Baptism of Jesus, II ; Other references to baptism in the Gospels ; Baptism in the Pauline Epistles ; The Acts of the Apostles ; Baptism in the rest of the New Testament and summary -- The second century. Apostolic Fathers ; Christian pseudepigrapha and apocrypha ; Apologists ; The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish Christianity ; Jewish and Christian baptisms ; Marcionites, those called Gnostics, and related groups ; Irenaeus ; Clement of Alexandria -- The third century to Nicaea (325). Writings attributed to Hippolytus ; Carthage : Tertullian ; Carthage : Cyprian ; Origin and early development of infant baptism ; The controversy over "rebaptism" in the third century ; Origen ; Syria in the third century ; Sources at the turn to the fourth century -- The fourth century. Egypt in the fourth century ; Jerusalem in the fourth century ; Writers in Syriac in the fourth century : Aphrahat ; Writers in Syriac in the fourth century : Ephraem the Syrian ; The school of Antioch : Theodore of Mopsuestia ; The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom, I ; The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom, II ; Miscellaneous sources : church orders and "Eunomian" baptism ; Cappadocia : Basil the Great ; Cappadocia : Gregory of Nazianzus ; Cappadocia : Gregory of Nyssa ; The delay of baptism : sickbed baptism, believers' baptism, and infant baptism ; Milan : Ambrose ; Other north Italians ; Spain ; Some other Latin authors -- The fifth century. Egypt : Cyril of Alexandria and the Coptic rite ; Writers and writings in Syriac and Armenian ; Greek-speaking Syria ; Baptism in the Messalian controversy ; Asia Minor and Constantinople ; Ravenna and Rome ; Gaul and North Africa : Gennadius of Marseilles, some African councils, and Quodvultdeus of Carthage ; North Africa : Augustine of Hippo, I ; North Africa : Augustine of Hippo, II -- Baptisteries. Baptismal fonts : East ; Baptismal fonts : West ; Conclusions. |
| Subject |
Baptism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Doop.
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baptême -- 1er s. -- 6e s.
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Taufe.
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Liturgie.
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Theologie.
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Baptism -- Early church.
(OCoLC)fst01906801
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 30-600
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30 - 600
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780802827487 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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0802827489 (cloth: alkaline paper) |
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9780802871084 |
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0802871089 |
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