Invisible Baptism!
I just came across this quote in the Ancient Christian Commentary.
"It has happened that an unbaptized person has received the forgiveness of his sins. Was such a person invisibly baptized, considering that he received the gift which belongs to baptism?" - Ambrosiaster
This reminds me of Tom M.'s comment - "If you want an invisible church then you can have an invisible Eucharist." Well, Tom, now we can add to that list an invisible baptism as well. Full speed ahead for the invisible church!
"It has happened that an unbaptized person has received the forgiveness of his sins. Was such a person invisibly baptized, considering that he received the gift which belongs to baptism?" - Ambrosiaster
This reminds me of Tom M.'s comment - "If you want an invisible church then you can have an invisible Eucharist." Well, Tom, now we can add to that list an invisible baptism as well. Full speed ahead for the invisible church!
posted by Tom Arthur at 8:04 PM
6 Comments:
My understanding has been that Augustine, at least, talked about baptism by desire. That is, if you die before you can be baptized, you're still OK, as long as you would have gotten baptized had you had the opportunity. I'm assuming the ACCS quote you read is on a passage in Act. Those people did get baptized as soon as they learned about it.
1 Corinthians.
King Arthur, I know this is your humor speaking, but a baptism by desire is different from a baptism as empty sign (id est, invisible).
I just came from Worship precept where Father Ben talked about a hostage crisis in Lebanon when a hostage who was a catholic priest served an "invisible Eucharist" to the other hostages during several years of being a hostage. One more for the invisible church! :)
Why are you so delighted by invisible church talk, Dean Arthur (that is thomas and I's new name for the President)?
Oh, just reveling in Duke Heresy.
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