Infant baptism (or paedobaptism) is the practice of baptizing infants or young children. Infant baptism is also called christening by some faith traditions...

baptizing infants. Credobaptists believe that infants incapable of consciously believing should not be baptized. The mode of believer's baptism depends...

amongst Christians. Baptism is also called christening, although some reserve the word "christening" for the baptism of infants. In certain Christian...

denied the validity of infant baptism, which was the normal practice when their movement started and practiced believer's baptism instead. Several groups...

person of any age, but is often used in reference to the baptism of a newborn infant. The baptism can be performed by a person not normally authorized to...

baptized. Commonly referred to as believer's baptism, it is opposed to baptism of infants, who are not able to make a conscious decision to be baptized. The...

accordance with his reading of the New Testament, he rejected baptism of infants and instituted baptism only of believing adults. Baptist practice spread to England...

for baptism, as a part of Christian initiation for both rites of infant and adult baptism. The earliest western fonts are found in the Catacombs of Rome...

beliefs about the eternal fate of infants who die before baptism, Eastern Orthodox usually delay baptism until the infant is at least 40 days old, which...

century AD, infant baptism had begun to gain acceptance among Christians for the spiritual purification and social initiation of infants. Normally, these...

it is the practice to lose no time and run in haste to administer baptism to infant children, because it is believed, as an indubitable truth, that otherwise...

A renewed search of the scriptures left Menno Simons believing that infant baptism is not in the Bible. He discussed the issue with his pastor, searched...

believer's baptism, including Baptists and Churches of Christ, rebaptize those who were baptized as infants because they do not consider infant baptism to be...

believer's baptism. Baptists believe that people should only be baptized after the age of accountability. Similarly, traditions that practise infant baptism usually...

infant baptism with the Pelagians contributed to Augustine's change. Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 220) was the first Christian to mention infant baptism....

Christian denominations that practice infant baptism, confirmation is seen as the sealing of the covenant created in baptism. Those being confirmed are known...

views on baptism were largely a response to Anabaptism, a movement which criticized the practice of infant baptism. He defended the baptism of children...

Christening may refer to: Baptism, a Christian sacrament of initiation Infant baptism, the practice of baptizing infants or young children Christening...

Jesus Christ. This is also true for Limbo of the Infants in that simply because a child died before baptism, does not mean they deserve punishment, though...

that the Church in the apostolic period practised infant baptism, arguing that the mention of the baptism of households in the Acts of the Apostles would...

view may also adhere to the tradition of infant baptism; the Orthodox Churches all practice infant baptism and always baptize by total immersion repeated...

members should be baptized. Because baptism is believed to be beneficial only to those who have faith in Christ, infants are baptized on the basis of the...

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

a method of baptism where the person baptized is immersed Infant baptism, the practice of baptising infants or young children Baptism (band), a Finnish...

Christian name was given on the occasion of Christian baptism, with the ubiquity of infant baptism in modern and medieval Christendom. In Elizabethan England...

the first to link his notion of original guilt with infant baptism. Cyprian writes that the infant is "born has not sinned at all, except that carnally...

that infant baptism forgives sins. Celestius, who was a disciple of Pelagius, denied the necessity of infant baptism for salvation, as infants were not yet...

credobaptist is founded on somewhat weak evidence, and by this point infant baptism had become common and clear among the orthodox writers.[obsolete source]...

after coming up out of the waters of baptism (the Orthodox baptize by immersion, even in the case of infant baptism). As the robe is being placed on the...

Bogomils rejecting baptism likely meant a rejection of infant baptism and trine-immersion, which could have been taken as rejection of baptism itself, since...