Sentences with phrase «on baptism continues»

Not exact matches

The church that proclaimed the Chalcedonian Creed in 451 A.D. also practiced the baptism on nonbelievers (infants), prayed to Mary, and believed in and conducted the «sacrifice of the Mass,» and had a special order of priests in the church to carry out the «sacrifice of the Mass.» All these things continue today in the Roman Catholic Church and in the the Russian Orthodox Church (and the other «Eastern Orthodox» churches).

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

A second is the Catholic doctrine of baptism, especially its emphasis on the regenerative quality of the sacrament and its possible domestic and political implications, which the Church continues to acknowledge in her codified counsel regarding near - death situations, as well as in her use of the Pauline privilege, which allows for the dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons if one of them should subsequently receive baptism.