In the early church baptism was more exclusive. Admission into full participation in the Christian community entailed meeting some high standards and completing an initiation program known today ...

Starting with the Gospels and Acts, you can see the universal practice of baptism in the early church. It's in the Great Commission in Matthew 28, and it's an automatic factor in a person's coming ...

In the early Church, Christians, particularly those in the East, celebrated the advent of Christ on Jan. 6 by commemorating Nativity, Visitation of the Magi, Baptism of Christ, and the Wedding of ...

The early Church Fathers consistently affirmed the Catholic (and scriptural) belief about baptism, viewing it as a sacrament for the remission of sins and the regeneration of the soul. I aim to ...

As discussed in a previous article, the early Church Fathers laid a strong foundation ... St. Basil the Great (330-379) believed in “the baptism of salvation” and “being saved through ...

Early in the second century, the influential thinker Cerinthus popularized the idea of Jesus being possessed and overwhelmed by a divine force at his baptism, and that became the standard gnostic view ...