Word: christian
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...doomed to hell. Somewhat more merciful in his thinking, Thomas Aquinas later suggested that the unbaptized would go not to hell but to limbo, though original sin would still deny them heaven. During the 16th century, the radical reformers known as Anabaptists returned on Biblical grounds to the primitive Christian practice of baptizing only adult believers. But Luther, Calvin and the majority of Protestant leaders stood largely by tradition...
...pouring a few drops of water on the infant's head. Many clerics argue that baptism has in effect been made a mockery by unchurched parents who want their child baptized as a matter of form but have no intention whatsoever of raising the infant as a Christian...
Into the Community. Instead of automatically baptizing children in infancy, Jesuit Theologian Joseph Powers of California's Alma College would postpone the ceremony until the age of ten or twelve. "The whole meaning of baptism," he says, "is not to make a Christian out of a child but to incorporate the individual, at some time in life, into the community of the church." Thus he believes it makes more sense for a child raised in a Christian home to undergo baptism at an age when he can really start believing in the church. This procedure would effectively answer...
Nonetheless, there are some serious objections to total abolition of infant baptism. Philip Hefner of Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology argues that the ceremony marks the entrance of the Christian into the community of faith, and that by baptizing infants the church shows that he is acceptable even when defenseless before...
Johnson first brought up the subject of a lower voting age in a commencement speech at Texas Christian University on Wednesday...