Word: baptisme
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...quite sensitively reconciled the grandeurs of the King James version with the need for a fresh, contemporary tone. After noisily establishing the Romans in Palestine. Scenarist Yordan moves swiftly and synoptically through the Gospels: The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt. The Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession to Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the Agony in the Garden, the Trial before Pilate, the Ascent of Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection. Unfortunately, many of these...
Shorn of its brain-braiding legal language, the new church law defines a member as one who has been baptized and whose baptism has been recorded...
...Baptism. Since then Walter Ulbricht has ruled his people with deft application of both the carrot and the stick, always careful to keep in step with the word from Moscow. In 1956, when Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th Party Congress, Stalin's old friend Ulbricht was quick to echo the new line ("One cannot reckon Stalin among the classic Marxists"). For all the thaw, Ulbricht soon cracked down on students and teachers who had friendly ideas of their own, arresting dozens, expelling scores from their universities. To stamp out religion and give new meaning to socialism, Ulbricht introduced...
...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...