Baptism
idea · 5 works · 5 mentions · 10 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Baptism the event
baptism · holy baptism · new birth · the font · the laver · the water of baptism
in the texts
Letters
Christian baptism, required for reception of converts and certain heretics into the Church.
So that the privileges of the new birth are most necessary in their case.
For since their heresy is, as it were, an offshoot of the Marcionists, who abhor marriage and turn away from wine, and say that the creation of God is defiled, we do not receive them into the Church unless they are baptized into our baptism.
Barlaam and Josaphat
The Christian sacrament of initiation, discussed as unrepeatable yet requiring watchfulness afterward.
Hear what one must do after baptism.
So I am now ready both to receive baptism and to keep everything you tell me.
See, then, we have been commanded to hold fast to these after baptism, and to abstain from their opposites.
Adversus Judaeos
The Christian rite of baptism, linked typologically to Moses' tree and Christ's cross.
For this tree was then in the mystery by which Moses sweetened the bitter water, from which the people, perishing of thirst in the wilderness, revived by drinking — just as we, drawn out from the calamities of the world, in which we dwelt perishing of thirst (that is, deprived of the divine word), have revived by drinking in faith, which is in him, the water of baptism from the tree of Christ's pa …
De Carnis Resurrectione
Baptism, invoked by both heretics and Paul in describing a present spiritual dying and rising.
Thence, then, having attained resurrection by faith, they are with the Lord when they have put Him on in baptism.
then buried together with Christ in baptism, and raised together in Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
De Pudicitia
The baptismal grace whose loss and possible recovery is debated.
For if the Christian is he who, having received from God the Father a substance — surely of baptism, surely of the Holy Spirit, and thence of eternal hope — and having wandered far from the Father, squanders it by living after the heathen manner;
In short, "to the destruction," he says, "of the flesh," not to its torment — damning the very substance through which he had fallen, which thereafter had now perished, baptism being lost — "that the spirit," he says, "may be safe in the day of the Lord.