seeing in a mirror dimly » patristics http://www.earngey.info a fusion of theology, culture, politics and fun Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:43:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 On Baptism http://www.earngey.info/2008/11/13/on-baptism/ http://www.earngey.info/2008/11/13/on-baptism/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:25:00 +0000 Mark http://tempimport123.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/on-baptism/
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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