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Baptism — Is Missionary Practice Inconsistent?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
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In his booklet The Teaching of the Church regarding Baptism, p. 46, Karl Barth discusses a curious Lutheran view ‘that baptism effects something quite different in children and in adults’. He adds, in a footnote: ‘Is it clear in present day missionary work, where there seems to be agreement in a double practice of baptism, that such presupposes a double teaching regarding the meaning of baptism?’ As a missionary, I should like to answer emphatically ‘No!’ When we are baptising a convert from another faith after careful preparation, and when we are baptising the infant child of believing parents, we are doing essentially the same thing.
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page 29 note 1 Used simply as a general term to include adult or child.
page 29 note 2 Shorter Catechism definition.
page 30 note 1 John 15.1, 2, 6, R.S.V.
page 30 note 2 Peter 2.9, R.S.V., spelling Anglicised.
page 30 note 3 e.g. Phil. 4.15; Philem. 3.
page 30 note 4 e.g. Rom. 16.33; I Cor. 10.32.
page 30 note 5 The question of the Pauline authorship of Ephesians does not really this statement, as ‘the Body of Christ’ is mentioned in I Corinthians and Colossians, whose authenticity is not questioned.
page 31 note 1 Dogmatics in Outline, p. 143.
page 31 note 2 Gal. 6.16.
page 32 note 1 R.S.V.
page 32 note 2 Isaiah xl–lxvi, p. 237 (4th ed., 1895).
page 33 note 1 2 Tim. 4.2.
page 33 note 2 I Cor. 3.15.
page 33 note 3 Isa. 49.3 (G. A. Smith).