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Water is poured on the head of an infant held over the baptismal font of a Catholic church. Infant baptism [1] [2] (or paedobaptism) is the practice of baptizing infants or young children. Infant baptism is also called christening by some faith traditions. Most Christians belong to denominations that practice infant baptism.
[33] [34] The Pelagians taught infant baptism merely allowed children to enter the kingdom of God (viewed as different than heaven), so that unbaptized infants could still be in heaven. [35] In response, Augustine invented the concept that infants are baptized to remove Adam 's original guilt (guilt resulting in eternal damnation). [ 36 ]
Walafrid Strabo, despite being in support of infant baptism, said that baptism "in the ancient times" was performed on those who had already matured. [43] [44] [45] During the medieval age, infant baptism was opposed by the Arnoldists, Waldensians, and Peter of Bruys. The Waldensians also practiced baptism by full immersion.
The Catholic Church considers baptism so important parents are obliged to see that their infants are baptised within the first few weeks and, if the infant is in danger of death, it is to be baptised without any delay. [117] It declares: The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this ...
Receiving this baptism was regarded as a bar to Holy Orders, but this sprang from the person's having put off baptism until the last moment—a practice that in the fourth century became common, with people enrolling as catechumens but not being baptized for years or decades. While the practice was decried at the time, the intent of the ...
Infant communion, also known as paedocommunion, refers to the practice of giving the Eucharist, often in the form of consecrated wine mingled with consecrated bread, to young children. This practice is standard throughout Eastern Christianity , where communion is given at the Divine Liturgy to all baptized and chrismated church members ...
In the system of Peter of Bruys baptism is necessary for salvation, however only a baptism that is done on believers. Petrobrusians saw the cross as a symbol of Christ's suffering, thus they cannot be venerated, and Petrobrusians destroyed crosses into bonfires, in the theology of Peter the gospels were interpreted literally, however the New Testament epistles were subordinate to the gospels. [3]
Typically, one becomes a member of the Church by baptism and chrismation performed by a priest as a single service, [8] or subsequent to baptism performed by a layman. [9] While chrismation is often performed without baptism, baptism is never performed without chrismation; hence the term "baptism" is construed as referring to the administration ...