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Baptism

Water and Spirit make a person new and join them to Christ

Baptism is the sacrament of initiation by water and the Spirit, washing away sin and incorporating a person into Christ and the Church. Its roots reach to the Gospel command to baptize, the book of Acts, and the early Didache. The traditions differ sharply, however, over its mode (immersion or pouring), its proper subjects (infants or only believers), and the nature of its regenerative effect.

How it traveled

  1. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    applies
  2. Romans
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  3. Colossians
    Rome · 67
    applies
  4. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
    explains
  5. Mark
    Rome · 68
    explains
  6. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  7. Acts
    Rome · 84
    explains
  8. Luke
    Rome · 84
    explains
  9. John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  10. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
    explains
  11. The First Apology
    Rome · 165
    explains
  12. On Baptism.
    — · 220
    explains
  13. On Modesty.
    — · 220
    applies
  14. The Instructions of Commodianus.
    — · 220
    explains
  15. Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism.
    — · 220
    explains
  16. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    — · 220
    applies
  17. Book III
    — · 220
    explains
  18. The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas.
    — · 220
    applies
  19. The Epistle of Pope Urban First.
    — · 220
    applies
  20. On Repentance.
    — · 220
    explains
  21. The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
    — · 220
    explains
  22. The Shows, or De Spectaculis.
    — · 220
    applies
  23. The Epistles of Cyprian.
    Carthage · 258
    explains
  24. The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian. Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.
    Carthage · 258
    applies
  25. The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice
    Nicaea · 325
    explains
  26. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  27. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  28. The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods
    — · 360
    explains
  29. Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany
    Edessa · 373
    explains
  30. De Spiritu Sancto
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    explains

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Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist — In which Augustin replies to all the several statements in the letter of Petilianus, as though disputing with an adversary face to face. — part 9↗explains

Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist · Augustine of Hippo

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 15. - OF BAPTISM. — part 3↗explains

Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin

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Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany — Hymn VI.↗explains

Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany · Ephrem the Syrian

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Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany — Hymn VIII.↗explains

Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany · Ephrem the Syrian

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Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany — Hymn XI.↗explains

Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany · Ephrem the Syrian

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On Repentance., Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received. It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life.↗explains

On Repentance. · Ethical

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Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen — The Oration on Holy Baptism. — part 1↗explains

Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen · Gregory of Nazianzus

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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril — On Baptism. — part 1↗explains

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem

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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril — On the Mysteries. II: Of Baptism.↗explains

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem

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The First Apology, Chapter LXI↗explains

The First Apology · Justin Martyr

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 66 - OF THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM (TWELVE ARTICLES) — part 1↗explains

Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 68 - OF THOSE WHO RECEIVE BAPTISM (TWELVE ARTICLES) — part 1↗explains

Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 68 - OF THOSE WHO RECEIVE BAPTISM (TWELVE ARTICLES) — part 8↗applies

Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas

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Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism., A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer.↗explains

Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism. · Appendix

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 15. - OF BAPTISM. — part 2↗explains

Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 15. - OF BAPTISM. — part 7↗explains

Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin

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Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany — Hymn V.↗explains

Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany · Ephrem the Syrian

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Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany — Hymn VII.↗explains

Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany · Ephrem the Syrian

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Letters of St. Augustin — Letters of St. Augustin — To Boniface — part 1↗explains

Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo

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On Baptism, Against the Donatists — In which Augustin proves that it is to no purpose that the Donatists bring forward the authority of Cyprian, bishop and martyr, since it is really more opposed to them than to the Catholics. For that he held that the view of his predecessor Agrippinus, on the subject of baptizing heretics in the Catholic Church when they join its communion, should only be received on condition that peace should be maintained with those who entertained the opposite view, and that the unity of the Church should never be broken by any kind of schism. — part 2↗explains

On Baptism, Against the Donatists · Augustine of Hippo

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