As a mother of young children and as a priest, I will put this book in the hands of many a friend and parishioner. If you are a parent deciding whether to baptize infant children, this book is essential reading.

This book looks at the various arguments for infant baptism and critiques them through the use of biblical exegesis.

... infant baptism ; and then runs on vapouring about the want of consequence from infant circumcision to infant baptism . But then why did he not say this at first ? A man that has true grounds to defend any proposition , is a mad sort of ...

"My goal in this little book is pastorally to explain the scriptural foundation for infant baptism.

... infant baptism was practiced by the year a.d. 150 , surely the Roman church was sufficiently large that the baptism of converts from paganism would not have completely overshadowed the baptism of infants born to believers . Why , then ...

Matthew 28: 18-20 and the Institution of Baptism3. Unto You and Your Children4. The Oikos Formula5. Baptism and Circumcision as Signs and Seals6. The Mode of Baptism7. The Newness of the New Covenant8. Infant Baptism in the New Covenant9.

Joachim Jeremias here makes his greatest contribution in a study of the early tradition of infant baptism.

... Infant Baptism , * I pro- pose to give that branch of the subject as full an examination as my limits will permit . I shall show that the History of the primitive Church , so far from sustaining this rite , furnishes indisput- able ...

The story of pedobaptism is traced from its shadowy beginnings as a variant of faith-baptism, through inflated Reformation defenses as infant-baptism monopolized baptismal thought and practice, to biblical and ecumenical reevaluations and ...