Sentence examples for baptism itself from inspiring English sources
As the rite is described in an early church order which most 20th-century scholarship identified with the treatise Apostolic Tradition (c. 215) by Hippolytus of Rome the baptism itself took the form of a threefold immersion in water.
All uses of the name that derive from this source (uses deriving from the baptism itself, or acquired from someone who was present at the baptism, or from someone who acquired it from someone who was present at the baptism, etc).
Then there's the matter of the baptism itself which has been a controversial issue for decades.
The baptism site itself combines a carefully controlled archaeological dig surrounded by the construction of a dozen new churches and guesthouses.
They believed, however, that immersion of infants was not true baptism because the rite itself was not regenerative but the outward sign of an inner experience the rebirth in the spirit of which only an adult was capable.
On 29 April, the 2nd Brigade was relieved by the 12th (Deal) Battalion and in early May the battalion was able to reorganise itself after its baptism of fire.
It is the only religious group I know of that calls itself Christian and doesn't believe in baptism.
The traffic was slow along Washington Street here, as gawkers pulled off on the increasingly narrow shoulder, emerging in Sunday clothes to take pictures of an old brick church that itself was undergoing something of a full-immersion baptism.
