Adult Baptism Flashcards
What was Christian faith about?
Loving God and his people
What did they feel they had been called to?
Christian faith
What did they want this confession to be?
Different from that of the ordinary religion
What were they striving towards?
Perfection
What did adult baptism signify?
A radical break with an old form of life
What was adult baptism about?
Allowing people to make a choice
What did they want to be?
Different
What did they insist children couldn’t do?
Make a vow - and people couldn’t make that choice for them
What did adult baptism appear to take place of?
The monastic vow
What did they need to do publicly?
An expression of the poor and the oppressed
Who could receive adult baptism?
Those who has received repentance
When they had received repentance what were they committed to?
A new form of life needs breaking from their old way of life
What choice did they need to make?
They needed to make a choice about what they were committed too
What did they have the fight to call back?
They had the right to call back to the repentance of a holy life
What was adult baptism considered to be?
An insecurity of the time
What was their true nature like?
Psychologically negative as it enables people to do what they want
What may have shaped similarities?
The social conditions of the time
What do they have to believe?
That their sins will be taken by Christ
Who do they believe can be saved?
Those who can be saved
Who was baptism given to?
Those who have repented
What is the highest offence?
Infant baptism is the highest offence by the pope
What did they want to reaffirm first?
Infant baptism
