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- Tertullian's suggestion that infants -- those brought to the baptismal font not by virtue of their own choice but by the hands of "sponsors" -- be denied baptism until later in life rests on a number of significant assumptions: 1) that baptism positively effects the remission of sins; 2) that infants, though born relatively "innocent" (Tertullian lacks a developed doctrine of original sin), will often grow up to commit fairly significant sins; 3) that since one cannot be re -baptized for "the...
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Jun 6, 2016 · Learn how the early church practiced baptism from Tertullian, Hippolytus, and the Didache. Find out when and why infant baptism became common, and how it differed from full immersion.
Dec 18, 2023 · Tertullian makes a fourfold recommendation regarding infant baptism here. He states that: The “little children” should have their baptism delayed. Why should the sponsors be put into danger by the failure of the little child to fulfill the promises of the sponsors?
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The work, De baptismo (Concerning Baptism) was written, evidently, between AD 200 and 206. In it, Tertullian questions the wisdom of giving baptism to infants. He says, What we see here is that the first explicit witness to infant baptism does not assume that it is a given. In other words, at the turn of the third century it is not taken for grante...
When we look at the New Testament, the closest thing to infant baptism that we find is the reference to three “households” being baptized. 1. In 1 Corinthians 1:16, Paul says, “I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.” 2. In Acts 16:15, Luke reports concerning the new convert Lydia, “...
Yet from these texts, Joachim Jeremias, who wrote one of the most influential books in defense of infant baptism, concluded, “It is characteristic that Luke could report the matter thus. For by so doing he gives expression to the fact that ‘the solidarity of the family in baptism and not the individual decision of the single member’ was the decisiv...
In Tertullian’s Treatise on the Soul, probably written around this same time period, does he argue for original sin or infant baptism? Tertullian argues that the infants of pagans, because of the superstitious practices which the pagans of those days practiced to accompany childbearing, were consecrated to demons at birth.
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Tertullian (ca. 155-230) did argue in favor of believer's baptism, but this was in reaction to the un-biblical practice that was being taught in some areas that Christians should wait to be baptized until just before death, and not in reaction to infant baptism.
Oct 24, 2014 · Tertullian's suggestion that infants -- those brought to the baptismal font not by virtue of their own choice but by the hands of "sponsors" -- be denied baptism until later in life rests on a number of significant assumptions: 1) that baptism positively effects the remission of sins; 2) that infants, though born relatively "innocent ...
Jan 1, 2001 · We find explicit mention of infant baptism as early as Tertullian around A.D. 220. Tertullian mentions the practice in conjunction with sponsors who would aid in the child’s spiritual training. I would assume that this is the origin of the practice of godparents.
