Word: baptisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canon law decrees that babies should be christened within a fortnight of birth. Parents are prone to stretch the deadline a bit, but now the whole practice is under fire. Three vicars have resigned from the Church of England, announcing that they no longer believe in infant baptism. Three others, with covert support from dozens of Low Church vicars, have informed their bishops that they will baptize only believing adults...
...Infant baptism is a church custom that can be traced back at least to the second century. During the Reformation, radical Protestants on the Continent argued that baptism should be reserved for adult believers who consciously choose Christ-a practice followed by Baptists, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists, who all use total immersion. For Anglicans, infant baptism is a heritage of Catholicism, preserved because it is "most agreeable with the institution of Christ...
...left Yale at 19 during his sophomore year, enlisted in the Marines and landed with assault troops on Guadalcanal. Back in the U.S., he finished Yale and Harvard Law. In 1951 he was recalled to the Marines and captained a rifle company in Korea. In 1952 he got his baptism by fire in the political wars as a campaign aide to unsuccessful Providence Mayoralty Candidate Christopher Del Sesto. In 1956 he struck out on his own, was elected to the state house of representatives, and two years later became minority leader...
...veils. She fussed over food fads, played grand opera endlessly on the phonograph, loved to read the classics aloud to tiny Lady Bird. She scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism. Naturally, most folks thought Minnie weird and standoffish. Says a longtime friend of Lady Bird's, Mrs. Eugenia Lassater of Henderson, Texas: "Mrs. Taylor was a cultured woman. But she didn't consort with Karnack people...
...Christ said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me! for of such is the kingdom of heaven." He made no mention of original sin, infant baptism, limbo, etc. Why should...