Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Although the...

Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council...

recognize infant baptism. The traditional form of Anabaptist baptism was pouring, the form commonly used in Western Christianity in the early 16th century...

manifestations or titles of the one God. The first baptisms in early Christianity are recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Acts 2 records the Apostle...

baptism of Jesus as an important event and a basis for the Christian rite of baptism (see also Acts 19:1–7). In Eastern Christianity, Jesus's baptism...

Christianity, used baptism as the central sacrament of his messianic movement. Christians consider Jesus to have instituted the sacrament of baptism....

only after baptism (8:2f.). Beckwith, Roger T. (2005). Calendar, Chronology And Worship: Studies in Ancient Judaism And Early Christianity. Brill....

Charismatic Christianity is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts as an everyday part of a believer's...

belong to denominations that practice infant baptism. Branches of Christianity that practice infant baptism include Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and...

small, who hold in all things with the Anabaptists". In the early church, instances of baptisms following conversion to Christianity are recorded. Advocates...

Historiography of early Christianity is the study of historical writings about early Christianity, which is the period before the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Historians...

Papacy in early Christianity was the period in papal history between 30 AD, when according to Catholic doctrine, Saint Peter effectively assumed his pastoral...

Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion...

Jewish Christianity is the foundation of Early Christianity, which later developed into Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Christianity. Christianity...

controversy in early Christianity played an important role in Christian theology. The circumcision of Jesus is celebrated as a feast day in the liturgical...

voluntary. In most varieties of Christianity, baptism is the initiation rite for entrance into the Christian community. Almost all baptisms share in common...

dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch. c. 34 or 200...

before the state's formation. As early as the 1st century CE, Greeks in the Black Sea Colonies converted to Christianity, although most of these lands never...

justified by their faith in Jesus. This was part of a gradual split between early Christianity and Judaism, as Christianity became a distinct religion...

for Christian baptism, as is baptisma" (BDAG, 165) Paulsen, David L. and Mason, Brock M. (2010) 'Baptism for the Dead in Early Christianity," Journal of...

In Christian theology, baptism with the Holy Spirit, also called baptism in the Holy Spirit or baptism in the Holy Ghost, has been interpreted by different...

Stanley J. Grenz (2000) ISBN 0802847552 p. 380. Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries by Everett Ferguson...

Gnostic theologians. Nonetheless, early Gnostic teachers such as Valentinus saw their beliefs as aligned with Christianity. In the Gnostic Christian tradition...

aligning with a specific Christian denomination. In North America, nondenominational Christianity arose in the 18th century through the Stone-Campbell Restoration...

βαπτισμός 'baptism'; ‹See Tfd›German: Täufer, earlier also Wiedertäufer) is a Christian movement which traces its origins to the Radical Reformation in the 16th...

" Infant baptism was widely practised at least by the third century, but it is disputed whether it was in the first centuries of Christianity. Some believe...

Baptists are a branch of Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion...

particularly in Evangelical Christianity. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and separately caused by baptism in the Holy...

Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, an...

In early medieval art, the Father may be represented by a hand appearing from a cloud in a blessing gesture, for example in scenes of the Baptism of...