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Baptism

Water and Spirit make a person new and join them to Christ

Baptism is the sacrament of initiation by water and the Spirit, washing away sin and incorporating a person into Christ and the Church. Its roots reach to the Gospel command to baptize, the book of Acts, and the early Didache. The traditions differ sharply, however, over its mode (immersion or pouring), its proper subjects (infants or only believers), and the nature of its regenerative effect.

How it traveled

  1. Acts
    Rome · 84
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  2. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
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  3. On Baptism.
    — · 220
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  4. The Epistles of Cyprian.
    Carthage · 258
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  5. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  6. The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods
    — · 360
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  7. Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany
    Edessa · 373
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  8. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  9. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  10. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  11. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  12. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  13. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  14. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  15. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  16. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  17. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. On Baptism, Against the Donatists
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. On Marriage and Concupiscence
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  31. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
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  32. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
    explains
  33. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
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  34. Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
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  35. The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage Under St. Cyprian, Which Canons Were Received by the Council in Trullo and Ratified by II. Nice
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 692
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  36. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
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  37. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  38. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
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  39. Inquiry Concerning Qualification for Communion
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated, in Reply to the Rev. Solomon Williams
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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