Thanks to such works as Keith Thomas's Religion and the decline ofmagic (1973), Lawrence Stone's The family, sex and marriage in England, 1500-1800 (1977), Ronald Hutton's The rise andfall ofmerry England: the ritual year, 1400-1700 (1994), and Anthony Fletcher's Gender, sex and subordination in England 1500-1800 (1995), the cultural and social history of the early modem period is blessed with ...

Abstract Reformed accounts of infant baptism are usually covenantal and promissory in nature. They about bringing the child into ambit visible church hope will own faith upon reaching age reason. This paper sets out an alternative account baptism, drawing on Scottish confessional tradition. On this account, infants have a disposition to conveyed them that due course become dispositional exercis...

The study shows that there is a full parallel between Mary in the Annunciation and baptism of believers. In Oriental interpretation, two-stage approach observed scene: Holy Spirit who cleanses Son incarnates have their counterpart birth new man – Christian receives through anointing with oil, becomes member Christ waters baptism. So we Mariology which soteriologically oriented inseparably conne...

Baptism is the sacramental celebration of Christian initiation. Paul’s letter to Romans, which central understanding baptism, characterizes this event as a dying with Christ and beginning new existence. This mode existence gains an aesthetic-performative form in liturgical rites. The design spaces can then be understood “petrified rites”. imperial church basilicas baptisteries Byzantine period ...