Part, Chapter
1 Intro | to the confession of "one baptism," and to the faith in one
2 Intro | Church" to which this single baptism is so closely related, and
3 Intro | common understanding of baptism, as well as its unity with
4 Intro | recognition of each other's baptism; and c) to present our conclusions,
5 Intro | common understanding of baptism, we believe, can our churches
6 I | I. ON BAPTISM~ ~
7 I,A | A. A Matter of Faith: Baptism rests upon and derives its
8 I,A | we refer to the fact that baptism, like all the sacraments,
9 I,A | Rom 3.22,26; Phil 3.9). Baptism is not a human work, but
10 I,A | the Apostles and Fathers, baptism was never understood as
11 I,A | final instructions before baptism at the paschal vigil: their
12 I,A | the paschal vigil: their baptism was the occasion for the
13 I,A | the adult candidate for baptism on his or her own behalf,
14 I,A | faith its own as well. By baptism, every Christian becomes
15 I,A | fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13). Baptism is the beginning of each
16 I,A | 3:11; Lk 12:49). Also in baptism, we believe that we recover
17 I,B | B. Baptism within the Rites of Initiation~
18 I,B | in Acts 2:38-42, we find baptism with water directly followed
19 I,B | the Spirit as preceding baptism (Acts 10:44-48; 11:15-17).
20 I,B | early patristic witnesses: baptism with water in the name of
21 I,B | unity. In the case of infant baptism, medieval Latin practice
22 I,B | in both churches between baptism and chrismation, or confirmation,
23 I,B | below).~ 2. The Method of Baptism: In ancient times, and in
24 I,B | contemporary Orthodox Church, baptism is administered as a threefold
25 I,B | since the later Middle Ages, baptism has usually been administered
26 I,B | being an invalid form of baptism, basing their protest on
27 I,B | buried with [Christ] by baptism into death, so that as Christ
28 I,B | itself can and does recognize baptism by infusion as valid in
29 I,B | fact recognized Catholic baptism as valid (see our discussion
30 I,B | below).~ 3. The Symbolism of Baptism: Baptism is at once a death
31 I,B | The Symbolism of Baptism: Baptism is at once a death and a
32 I,B | The Non-Repeatability of Baptism: It is our common teaching
33 I,B | our common teaching that baptism in water in the name of
34 I,B | To be sure, the grace of baptism may be betrayed by serious
35 I,B | is never accomplished by baptism, whose repetition we have
36 I,B | Investigation: "We Confess One Baptism"~ The Orthodox and Catholic
37 I,B | and a common faith in one baptism, despite some variations
38 I,B | also recognize each other's baptism as one and the same. This
39 I,B | milieu and the effect of baptism, and is not of our making.
40 I,B | In our common reality of baptism, we discover the foundation
41 I,B | this mutual recognition of baptism with all its consequences,
42 II | THE MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF BAPTISM.~
43 II,A | fruitfulness, of trinitarian baptism outside the bounds of the
44 II,A | the validity of Orthodox baptism just after the turn of the
45 II,A | practice of "conditional baptism," a pastoral option officially
46 II,A | validity of a person's earlier baptism, was also widely - and erroneously -
47 II,A | schismatic communities, so that baptism administered outside the
48 II,A | acknowledge that their position on baptism is a relatively new one,
49 II,A | baptized, and to recognize the baptism of "someone who has been
50 II,A | Gnostics, and Marcionites--is baptism required for entry into
51 II,A | into full communion without baptism. This policy is also reflected
52 II,A | heretics, who alone require baptism. Thus, in spite of the solemn
53 II,B | decree in 1755 requiring the baptism of Roman Catholics, Armenians,
54 II,B | chrismation rather than baptism. Nevertheless, these rulings
55 II,B | conciliar legislation on baptism and the Apostolic Canons.
56 II,B | ecumenically-ranked Synod in Trullo to baptism "outside" the visible Church,
57 II,B | economy" with regard to baptism by Arians in order to facilitate
58 II,B | interpret the treatment of Latin baptism by Constantinople at the
59 II,B | case attributing to their baptism any reality in its own right.
60 II,B | Church on the subject of baptism.~
61 III,A | any validity to Catholic baptism, and thus continues to justify
62 III,A | frequently in fact) the (re)baptism of converts from Catholicism.
63 III,A | the same understanding of baptism. This identical teaching
64 III,A | teaching is the conviction that baptism comes to us as God's gift
65 III,A | require the practice of baptism; rather, baptism is the
66 III,A | practice of baptism; rather, baptism is the Church's foundation.
67 III,A | recognize in each other the same baptism and thus also recognize
68 III,A | the ecclesial reality of baptism, in spite of our divisions,
69 III,A | recognition of Orthodox baptism has been constant in the
70 III,A | recognition of Catholic baptism by the Orthodox churches,
71 III,A | the guise of "conditional baptism," up to our own times.~
72 III,B | churches of each other's baptism;~ 2. That our churches address
73 III,B | the mutual recognition of baptism does not of itself resolve
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