Word: baptisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same would apply likewise to all who through no fault of their own die without baptism...
...million members. Last week Dr. Blake's ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks to proceed. Then they stumbled over another crucial theological point - and over a matter of personal piety...
Most Christians have always defended the necessity of baptism for salvation, relying on Jesus' words in St. John's Gospel: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
...Catholic, Protestant and Jewish laymen in Houston will cooperate on a city-wide church census. Mutual concern for backsliders has tempered ecclesiastical competition somewhat. Undermanned Catholic dioceses in the Southwest no longer complain when Protestant missions minister to Mexican-Americans who may be Catholic by birth and baptism but not by any demonstrated devotions. Many local councils of churches are now planning carefully to avoid the organization of new Protestant congregations in small communities that can barely support the ones they already have...
...believers must embark on a person-to-person campaign - "more heart-to-heart talks, frank explanations and patient conversations." He suggested the formation of Young Atheist clubs, whose members could enter into anti-religious dialogues with believers, such as warning pregnant women about the physical dangers involved in baptism and circumcision...