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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...

Church we find infant baptism as a universally observed practice.’ This is coupled with an interpretation of Tertullian’s De Baptismo that restricts the reference to parvuli to ‘the children of pagans joining the Church’, and of other works of Tertullian that makes him both ‘emphatically oppose’ ‘the tendency to postpone joining the Church’ and ‘not only presuppose the practice of infant baptism’ but even ‘advocate it’.12 Aland’s analysis of these texts gives a far more satisfying and consistent
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