Blog
Welcome to the Catholic Answers Shop Blog! This is a great place to dive deep into a popular topic and gain insights about many of our titles. Happy reading.
What Did the Early Christians Believe About Baptism?
Everett Ferguson, a Protestant elder, biblical scholar, and Church historian, has written what’s perhaps the definitive work on the subject, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries. Ferguson spends hundreds of pages carefully combing through the evidence to expose the first five hundred years’ worth of Christians thought about baptism.His findings are neatly summarized on page 854: Although in developing the doctrine of baptism different authors ha
…
Aug 1st 2022