03495cam a2200325 a 4500 15360873 20250312110152.0 150206s2009 miuaf b 001 0 eng 2008030617 9780802827487 (cloth hardback : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn213452268 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP YDX IMC DTM CDX NLGGC OCLCQ TLE C#P BWX DLC BV803 .F47 2009 234/.16109015 22 11.51 bcl Ferguson, Everett, 1933- Baptism in the early church : history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries/ / Everett Ferguson. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. xxii, 953 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Survey of literature -- Washings for purification in Greco-Roman paganism -- Words from the bapt- root in classical and Hellenistic Greek -- Jewish washings, baptismal movements, and proselyte baptism -- Baptism of Jesus I -- Baptism of Jesus II -- Other references to baptism in the gospels -- Baptism in the Pauline epistles -- The Acts of the apostles -- Baptism in the rest of the New Testament and summary -- Apostolic fathers -- Christian pseudepigrapha and apocrypha -- Apologists -- The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish Christianity -- Jewish and Christian baptisms -- Marcionites, those called gnostics, and related groups -- Irenaeus -- Clement of Alexandria -- Writings attributed to Hippolytus -- Carthage : Tertullian -- Carthage : Cyprian -- Origin and early development of infant baptism -- The controversy over "rebaptism" in the third century -- Origen -- Syria in the third century -- Sources at the turn of the fourth century -- Egypt in the fourth century -- Jerusalem in the fourth century -- Writiers in Syriac in the fourth century : Aphrahat -- Writiers in Syriac in the fourth century : Ephraem the Syrian -- The school of Antioch : Theodore of Mopsuestia -- The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom I -- The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom II -- Miscellaneous sources : church orders and "eunomian" baptism -- Cappadocia : Basil the Great -- Cappadocia : Gregory of Nazianzus -- Cappadocia : Gregory of Nyssa -- The delay of baptism : sickbed baptism, believers' baptism, and infant baptism -- Milan : Ambrose -- Other North Italians -- Spain -- Some other Latin authors -- Egypt : Cyril of Alexandria and the Coptic rite -- Writers and writings in Syriac and Armenian -- Greek-speaking Syria -- Baptism in the Messlaian controversy -- Asia Minor and Constantinople -- Ravenna and Rome -- Gaul and North Africa : Gennadius of Marseilles, some African councils, and Quodvultdeus of Carthage -- North Africa : Augustine of Hippo I -- North Africa : Augustine of Hippo II -- Baptismal fonts : East -- Baptismal fonts : West -- Conclusions. Baptism History Early church, ca. 30-600. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008030617.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default BK sh06 2008-07-14 sh06 2008-07-14; to Dewey 2008-07-16 rc09 2009-06-30 Z-CipVer rc09 2009-06-30 to BCCD rc09 2009-11-02 c. 2 added 8 190 190 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 234.161 Fer 2009 10185 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK