The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth CenturyThis is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This meticulously researched book recounts how the early sixteenth-century Reformers, steering a course between the old Latin rites on the one hand and the Anabaptist movement on the other, developed a baptismal service that they understood to be reformed according to Scripture. Hughes Oliphant Old's study shows the Reformed baptismal rite to be well thought out, pastorally sensitive, and theologically profound. |
Contents
The Latin Baptismal Rites on the Eve of the Reformation | 1 |
The Variety of Local Rites | 4 |
Adapted to Infant Baptism | 6 |
Preponderance of Exorcism | 10 |
Disappearance of Catechetical Instruction | 16 |
The Beginning of a Movement to Translate Certain Parts of the Rite | 21 |
Disappearance of Paschal Baptisms | 22 |
The Presbyterializing of Baptism | 26 |
Further Development and Revision of the Reformed Baptismal Rite 152642 | 145 |
Revision of the Baptismal Rite in Zurich | 146 |
The Berner Taufbüchlein of 1528 | 152 |
The Baptismal Rite of the Strasbourg Psalter of 1530 | 154 |
The Baptismal Rite of Neuchatel | 158 |
Liturgical Revision in Strasbourg 1537 | 164 |
The Baptismal Rite of Augsburg | 167 |
The Genevan Baptismal Rite | 171 |
Conclusion | 30 |
The First Translations of the Latin Rites | 33 |
Leo Juds German Baptismal Book of 1523 | 40 |
The Strasbourg German Baptismal Service of 1524 | 45 |
The First Reformed Baptismal Rites | 51 |
Reform of the Rite in Zurich | 62 |
Basel Service Book of 1526 | 66 |
Conclusion | 73 |
The Anabaptist Bid for the Reform of the Baptismal Rite | 77 |
Sources of Anabaptism in Strasbourg | 84 |
Sources of Anabaptism in Zurich | 87 |
Balthasar Hübmaier | 93 |
Hans Denck | 103 |
Conclusion | 109 |
The Defense of Infant Baptism by the Earliest Reformed Theologians | 111 |
The Argument from the Command of Christ and the Example of the Apostles | 114 |
The Argument from Typology | 120 |
Covenant Theology | 124 |
The Argument from Christian Nurture | 130 |
Argument from the Work of the Holy Spirit | 133 |
Argument from the Primacy of Grace | 136 |
Calvins Adoption of the Argument | 140 |
Conclusion | 142 |
Conclusion | 176 |
Catechetical Instruction | 179 |
The Reformers Begin Catechetical Instruction | 182 |
The Growth of Catechetical Instruction 153041 | 191 |
Catechetical Instruction in the Church of Geneva | 194 |
The Baptismal Vows | 201 |
The Baptismal Profession of Faith | 205 |
Bucerian Confirmation | 209 |
Calvinian Admission to the Lords Table | 216 |
The Baptismal Invocation | 227 |
The Baptismal Invocation of Strasbourg | 234 |
The Baptismal Invocation of Geneva | 240 |
Baptism and the Prayer of Confession | 243 |
The Washing and the Word | 249 |
The Rubrics | 250 |
The Formula | 254 |
The Water of Baptism | 260 |
Immersion Pouring and Sprinkling | 264 |
Conclusions | 283 |
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Common terms and phrases
abbreviated Agenda Anabaptists ancient apostles Augsburg Balthasar Hübmaier Baptismal Exhortation Baptismal Invocation baptismal service baptized Basel beginning biblical bishop Bucer Bullinger Calvin Capito catechetical instruction catechism celebrated century child Church circumcision clear confession of faith congregation consecration covenant covenant theology Creed Denck developed Erasmus exorcisms Farel Father font formula geist Genevan German Baptismal glauben God's godparents Gott grace Grebel heiligen Holy Spirit Hubert immersion infant baptism Jesus Christ Jud's Kawerau Latin rite Leo Jud liturgical reform Lord Lord's Prayer Luther Martin Bucer minister Obsequiale Constantiensis Oecolampadius Old Testament Ordnungen parents pastors patristic pray priest promise reciting Reformed baptismal rites rite of baptism ritual rubric sacrament sainct salvation Scripture Service Book service of worship sign of baptism sins sprinkling Strasbourg Strasbourg Psalter Strasbourg Reformers Taufbüchlein Taufe tauff teaching theologians theology Thomas Müntzer tradition translation understanding understood vatter vows words worship Zurich Zwingli