Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-bearded Menno Simons, who gave the group its name, was a Catholic priest of 44 when he left his church in 1536 to join Grebel's movement. Then the group were called Anabaptists because of their belief in the necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...
...position, to bring TIME Inc. all information about the first life of Chiang Kai-Shek; his certifikate of baptism and photo of his family house...
Giannini aspires to be the political voice of the Church as well as of Big Business. Last June he embraced Catholicism intensively; in one day Giannini, whose non-practicing Catholic father and English Protestant mother had never had him baptized, received four sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist and Matrimony (he remarried the woman to whom he had been wed in a civil ceremony years before...
...them to do their utmost to dissuade members of our Church from doing so. It means that Anglican fathers or mothers married to Roman Catholics are deprived of the right to influence the spiritual and religious upbringing of their children. It means disloyalty to the Church of their baptism and of their fathers. It is a humiliating condition...
...statement by all Anglican bishops setting forth the four points of Christian unity: 1) the Bible; 2) the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed; 3) the two sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper; 4) the historic episcopate...