Some scholars thus doubt the accuracy of the quotation in Matthew and suggest that it reflects a tradition formed by a merging of the idea of spiritual baptism (as in Acts 1 5), early baptismal rites (as in Acts 8 16), and reports of Pentecostalism after such rites (as in Acts 19 5 6).
In setting out the "rule of faith," Irenaeus combines a recital of the mighty acts of God in creation and history with the threefold structure of the divine Name in which baptism is administered (Matthew 28 19, and the baptismal profession found in the Apostolic Tradition).
Last year, he finished major work on a war-damaged chapel in Bourbourg, northern France, which involved erecting two high towers of oak, a concrete baptismal font and a series of wood, steel and terracotta sculptures.
He saved the lives of thousands of Jews, particularly in Hungary, by issuing them with false baptismal certificates.
But ahead of the pope's visit it has prepared material for schools highlighting Pope John XXIII's intervention, as a wartime papal nuncio in Istanbul, to save Jews from the Holocaust by issuing false baptismal certificates.
HE was almost dead when his mother scooped him out of the baptismal font in a small village in the Urals.
In the second of the two panels, Caravaggio imagined Matthew's apocryphal murder on the orders of a pagan ruler as a terrorist killing taking place in the baptismal chapel of a modern Roman church.
The synod approved 25 of them and adopted a supplementary statement reaffirming the Augustinian doctrines of corruption, human inability, prevenient grace, and baptismal regeneration.
In 1054, after the ecclesiastical upheaval following the definitive separation of the Greek and Roman churches, Psellus withdrew from academic work into monastic seclusion, adding Michael to his baptismal name.
Parthian Zoroastrianism reinforced local Zoroastrian communities in Mesopotamia left from the time of the Achaemenians, and one of the Gnostic baptismal religions, Mandaeanism, which is still in existence, had its beginning at this time.
One passage (saying 37) allows it to be suspected that the early Christian followers of the Gospel of Thomas took off their garments and trampled on them as part of their baptismal initiation.
