Baptism in the Early Church (2009 Ferguson), book

Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (2009) is a book by Everett Ferguson.

Editions

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009.

Table of contents

urvey 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 --; John the Baptizer --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; Baptismal fonts : East --; Baptismal fonts : West --; Conclusions

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