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  2. Reformed baptismal theology - Wikipedia

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    The Reformed tradition holds that baptism is primarily God's promise or offer of grace to the baptized. [37] Baptism is said to signify union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. [38] The baptized is made one with Christ's person, meaning God the Father treats them the same as he treats Christ.

  3. Baptism in the name of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Catholic Church states that only Trinitarian baptisms are valid. [22] While it does consider other baptismal formulae to be acceptable, since they were accepted by theologians of the past, the key requirement is that the baptism must have been performed by a church which (or, a person who) believes in the Trinity.

  4. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Catholic Church sees baptism as the first and basic sacrament of Christian initiation. [27] In the Western or Latin Church , baptism is usually conferred today by pouring water three times on the recipient's head, while reciting the baptismal formula: "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit " (cf ...

  5. Baptism - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church holds that those who are ignorant of Christ's Gospel and of the church, but who seek the truth and do God's will as they understand it, may be supposed to have an implicit desire for baptism and can be saved: " 'Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we ...

  6. History of baptism - Wikipedia

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    For the Lutherans, baptism is a "means of grace" through which God creates and strengthens "saving faith" as the "washing of regeneration" [63] [64] in which infants and adults are reborn. [ 65 ] [ non-primary source needed ] Since the creation of faith is exclusively God's work, it does not depend on the actions of the one baptized, whether ...

  7. Baptism of desire - Wikipedia

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    In Christian theology, baptism of desire (Latin: baptismus flaminis, lit. 'baptism of the breath', due to the belief that the Holy Spirit is the breath of God [1]), also called baptism by desire, is a doctrine according to which a person is able to attain the grace of justification through faith, perfect contrition and the desire for baptism, without the water baptism having been received.

  8. Believer's baptism - Wikipedia

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    Believer's baptism or adult baptism (occasionally called credobaptism, from the Latin word credo meaning "I believe") is the practice of baptizing those who are able to make a conscious profession of faith, as contrasted to the practice of baptizing infants. Credobaptists believe that infants incapable of consciously believing should not be ...

  9. Baptismal regeneration - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest of the Church Fathers to enunciate clearly and unambiguously the doctrine of baptismal regeneration ("the idea that salvation happens at and by water baptism duly administered") was Cyprian (c. 200 – 258): "While he attributed all the saving energy to the grace of God, he considered the 'laver of saving water' the instrument of God that makes a person 'born again ...