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These important and incisive essays, spanning more than two decades of research and engagement, probe facets and episodes of infant baptism’s fortunes over twenty centuries. The story of paedo baptism is traced from its shadowy beginnings as a variant of faith—baptism, through inflated Reformation defenses as it monopolized baptismal thought and practice, to biblical and ecumenical re—evaluations...

that baptism was given to infants without leaving any historical trace and without entailing any special rationale in baptismal theology. This is very nearly what confronts us in the earliest unmistakable evidence for the practice of baptizing both children and babies, in Hippolytus’ Apostolic Tradition. The order it lays down for baptism may confidently be held to reflect Roman practice not only when it was compiled, c. AD 215, but a generation or so earlier, back to c. 180. But its claim to prescribe
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