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    <title>Baptism in the early church</title>
    <subTitle>history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Ferguson, Everett</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1933-</namePart>
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    <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxii, 953 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Everett Ferguson.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Baptism</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Early church, ca. 30-600</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BV803 .F47 2009</classification>
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