Word: baptisme
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...offshoot of the Episcopalians, just as the United Church is a more freewheeling version of Calvinism than the Presbyterian. He purposely omitted the Lutherans and the Baptists, though he hopes they will eventually come in. The Baptists are too jealous of their congregational autonomy and are intransigent against infant baptism. The Lutherans in the U.S. are in the throes of pulling themselves together with mergers of their own (there have been 16 major Lutheran unions since...
...both in the apostolic succession and out of it from all over the world, from all Christian churches which would authorize or permit them to take part." ¶ The new church must confess belief in the Trinity and must administer the "two sacraments instituted by Christ"-the Eucharist and baptism. "It will not be necessary, I trust, for a precise doctrinal agreement to be reached about the mode of operation of the sacraments...
...Churches of Christ (not United). Each congregation is self-governing, under its own group of bishops (elders), just as in New Testament times. It should be the constant prayer of all Christians that the unity of Christ's church be upheld: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism . . ."* Our present pluralism is not only weakness but unscriptural...
...senior readers of a schoolbook knowledge of rhetoric; few nowadays can tell the difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded to discover that all his life he had been speaking...
...Plymouth Colony in 1620. As opposed to the concept of the church's having been established by God, Congregationalism is in the tradition of the "gathered" church, in which the individuals of the congregation form the church by coming together. The United Church recognizes the sacraments of baptism and communion, in which Christ is present in spirit...