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This volume contains a lecture given by Karl Barth to a group of Swiss theological students in 1943, in which he presents his thoughts on baptism, gleaned from his study of the New Testament. He discusses the power, meaning, and efficacy of baptism in its biblical and theological context.

out the Church’s baptism—a hazardous move at least. Here in any case that which is the special characteristic of the baptismal experience, and its peculiarity in relation to what it represents, is obliterated, in a fashion which certainly cannot be shown to be the case with the New Testament passages which are cited in support of this view (e.g., Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:4; 1 Peter 3:21; Eph. 5:26; Titus 3:5f; Acts 2:38). Let us remember that baptism is the representation, the seal, the sign, the copy,
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