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
December 7, 2008
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.