I’ve recently been trying to work through what baptism means. Big, tough questions indeed! Anyway, it was a nice distraction from Church History study tonight, but then I came across a funny quote from one of the Cappadocian fathers on baptism (which qualified the distraction as study!):
“In whose name were you baptised? In the Father’s name? Jewish, but good. In the Son’s name? Good; no longer Jewish, but not yet perfect. In the Holy Spirit’s name? Excellent! This is perfect.”
- Gregory of Nazianzus
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psychodougie says:
December 7, 2008 at 12:50 am (UTC 10 )
like it. where are you reading GofN? collected works of the cap-daddies?
sorry didn’t get round to reading it earlier – just saw i had 505 unread posts – it’s been a while! hope ur hols are going tops. cya round.
mark says:
December 7, 2008 at 2:30 am (UTC 10 )
hey bro – nice to hear from you! hols are tops indeed. was down in the berra for nte, then got back the other day. ah good feeling indeed!
re: GofN – no collected cap-dads, though that would be good indeed! there’s a 4-views Zondervan book on baptism in the moore library which I was reading. at the back, it’s got a whole bunch of quotes and references about baptism (from catechisms to the cap-daddies!)….
how’s your holidays bro? a few of us are meeting to chat through calvin as we read him… if you’re around, you should come for theo-banter!