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Charles Chauncy, clergyman and president of Harvard from 1654 to 1672, was an outspoken opponent of the Half-Way Covenant. As early as 1634, the church in Dorchester, Massachusetts, asked the advice of Boston's First Church concerning a church member's desire to have his grandchild baptized even though neither of his parents were full members.
Grandparent visitation is a legal right that grandparents in some jurisdictions may have to have court-ordered contact (or visitation) with their grandchildren. In no case is contact between grandparents and children considered an inalienable right .
Presumptive regeneration (also presupposed regeneration) is the idea often associated with Abraham Kuyper that parents should baptize their children based on a presumption of the child's being regenerate. The 1905 synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, meeting in Utrecht (Conclusion of Utrecht), declared: [1]
Other churches went beyond the Half-Way Covenant, opening baptism to all infants whether or not their parents or grandparents had been baptized. Other churches, citing the belief that baptism and the Lord's Supper were "converting ordinances" capable of helping the unconverted achieve salvation, allowed the unconverted to receive the Lord's ...
Kinship care is a term used in the United States and Great Britain for the raising of children by grandparents, other extended family members, and unrelated adults with whom they have a close family-like relationship such as godparents and close family friends because biological parents are unable to do so for whatever reason.
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Baptism also unites the baptized with Christ's history, meaning that the person can be said to have died, been buried, and raised again just as Christ was. [39] The baptized person's identity in Christ is based on Christ's action in baptism rather than the person's action. [40] This union also unites Christians to one another. [41]
Baptismal vows are taken by the candidate, godparents, or parents when an individual receives the sacrament of baptism. Baptismal vows are the renunciations required of an adult candidate for baptism just before the sacrament is conferred. [1] In the case of an infant baptism they are given by the godparents (sponsors) or