Baptism in the early church : history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries / Everett Ferguson. [print]

"This magisterial volume is a comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods"--Provided by publisher.

Survey of literature -- Antecedents to Christian baptism. -- Washings for purification in Greco-Roman paganism ; -- Words from the bapt- root in classical and Hellenistic Greek ; -- Jewish washings, baptismal movements, and proselyte baptism ; -- John the Baptizer -- Baptism in the New Testament. -- 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 -- The second century. -- 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 -- The third century to Nicaea (325). -- 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 to the fourth century -- The fourth century. -- Egypt in the fourth century ; -- Jerusalem in the fourth century ; -- Writers in Syriac in the fourth century : Aphrahat ; -- Writers 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 -- The fifth century. -- Egypt : Cyril of Alexandria and the Coptic rite ; -- Writers and writings in Syriac and Armenian ; -- Greek-speaking Syria ; -- Baptism in the Messalian 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 -- Baptisteries. -- Baptismal fonts : East ; -- Baptismal fonts : West ; -- Conclusions.

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