And first it is necessary to speak your love about the latter, so that we might learn about the former. There was a Jewish baptism, which cleansed from bodily impurities, but not to remove sins. Thus, ...

such as the Jewish sect of the Essenes. Some historians have thus considered that John the Baptist may have been influenced by this movement. Baptism has been the subject of immense theological ...

In Judaism, the infant is baptised before it has a faith of its own to symbolise that it belongs to the Jewish people. In the same way, Christian baptism of an infant occurs before the infant has ...