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The Mode Of Baptism, Walter A. Baepler
The Mode Of Baptism, Walter A. Baepler
Concordia Theological Monthly
A striking diversity exists in the Christian Church with reference to the mode of administering the rite of Baptism. Broadly speaking, the Eastern Church baptizes by immersion, the Western Church by pouring or sprinkling.
Infant Baptism, E. W. Koehler
Infant Baptism, E. W. Koehler
Concordia Theological Monthly
Ever since the days of the Anabaptists, in the early part of the sixteenth century, infant baptism has been a controverted question in the Church. Also in our day there are those who reject pedobaptism, because there is no text in the Bible which explicitly commands that also infants should be baptized, as they were commanded to be circumcised in the Old Testament.