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Tertullian. 3.63. 54 ratings14 reviews. ""On Baptism"" by Tertullian is a theological treatise that explores the significance and practice of baptism in early Christianity. Tertullian, a prominent North African theologian and apologist, wrote this work in the early third century AD as a response to the debates and controversies surrounding ...
Tertullian. On Baptism. Tertullian. Early Church Father. CHAPTER 1. Introduction. Origin of the treatise. Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life! A treatise on this matter will not be superfluous; instructing not only such as are just becoming ...
Tertullian's Works The Contents of the Treatise The Previous History of Baptism Tertullian's Baptism Service Tertullian's Doctrine of Baptism The Influence of Tertullian's Work The Text of the Treatise A note on the word Sacramentum
Dec 18, 2023 · In Tertullian’s On Baptism in chapter 18 (cited above), we find the very first instance of the practice of infant baptism being mentioned at all – whether in Scripture or otherwise. It is a practice which Tertullian and many even after him could (and would) say that “If you insist upon having positive Scripture injunction, you will find none.
The article is important in terms of providing a perspective on the concept of baptism practiced in the early period of Christianity, especially on infant/child baptism. The aim of this article is to present Tertullian's views on baptism in a tidy and detailed manner. Keywords: History of Religion, Tertullian, Baptism, Quintilla, 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 ...
Jul 20, 1998 · Tertullian (born c. 155/160, Carthage [now in Tunisia]—died after 220, Carthage) was an important early Christian theologian, polemicist, and moralist who, as the initiator of ecclesiastical Latin, was instrumental in shaping the vocabulary and thought of Western Christianity. He is one of the Latin Apologists of the 2nd century.
