Did the Early Church Baptize Infants?

Did the Early Church Baptize Infants?
Author: Kurt Aland
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2004-02-09
Genre: 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.

On Baptism Against the Donatists

On Baptism Against the Donatists
Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Total Pages: 371
Release:
Genre: 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

Baptism in the Early Church

Baptism in the Early Church
Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 988
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: 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.

Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries

Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries
Author: Joachim Jeremias
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2004-07-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1592447570

Joachim Jeremias here makes his greatest contribution in a study of the early tradition of infant baptism. He offers exegesis of pertinent New Testament passages, and readers will be impressed with the extra-Biblical evidence he produces to support that there was virtually universal observance of the rite in the post-Apostolic generations. He states his purpose thus: to lay before the reader the historical material relating to the history of infant baptism in the first four centuries in as concrete and sober a manner as possible.

Baptism in the Early Church

Baptism in the Early Church
Author: Hennie Stander
Publisher: EP BOOKS
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2004
Genre: 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.