‘Into the Name of the Lord Jesus’: Baptism in the Early Church (Biblia.com)

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Here, Dr. Hartman examines all New Testament passages which contain allusions to baptism. He discusses the variations and relative importance of these passages and includes a look at two documents from the Apostolic Fathers that shed further light on this subject for the early Christian. One of the particular motifs Hartman discovers is baptism’s relation to Christ. It is baptism into the name of...

seems to imply that baptism effected a particular relationship between Christ and the baptised person; he expresses this by using the image of donning Christ like a garment. Consequently, because of their baptism the baptised persons somehow belong to Christ, or are his property. What manner of religious thinking is the basis for a rite understood in such a way? The verses above may also seem somewhat astonishing with regard to the way in which baptism is introduced into the argument. Anyone who

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