Baptism

Uveal Melanoma: Beyond a Baptism

Ophthalmologists focus on a very specialized region of the body; however, our years of general medical training are useful for patients, especially those with uveal melanoma. While hereditary uveal melanoma (UM) is very rare (<1% of uveal melanomas) [1], patients with a high frequency of personal and/or family history of cancer are found inabout 12% of unselected patients with UM [2]. The incre...

The Origin and Meaning of Baptism

Baptism of fire of a Web-based design assistant

DYNAMO – a Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line – is a Web-based design assistant to support architectural design education. The tool is conceived as an (inter-)active workhouse rather than a passive warehouse: it is interactively developed by and actively develops its users' design knowledge. Its most important feature is not merely that it presents students with design cases, but that those c...

[Baptism out of necessity--a medico-historiografic view].

Baptism of necessity of life-threatened newborns was proclaimed by church law and related midwifery regulations from the second half of the 16th century. Midwives were for centuries the only lay persons attending the pregnant woman, parturient woman and newborn, so they were obliged to baptize newborns with life-threatening conditions, which were rather common and associated with high mortality...

Baptism and Becoming a Christian in the New Testament

The purpose of this article is to investigate how baptism is related to the experience of conversion in the New Testament. As a result I shall not deal with the following important subjects: the meaning of the term “to baptize” (baptidzein is generally conceded to mean “to dip or immerse”); the origin of Christian baptism (it is probably not dependent upon Jewish proselyte baptism since there i...