The meaning and use of baptizein

by Thomas Jefferson Conant

New York American Bible Union Publication 1864 Baptism -- History This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Nathan Wilder · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author himself probably only wrote 20 pages of material contained herein, and the remaining 170 pages are copy and pasted quotes from hundreds of historical sources in multiple languages demonstrating the use of the Greek work for baptism. Conant's objective in writing this book is to argue that the Greek work for baptism should always be translated "immersion" or in the same vein, as opposed to using the transliteration, baptism. This book does not address any theological arguments surrounding the subject of baptism, other than its mode: immersion. Readers will appreciate this book more if they are familiar with reading in English, Greek, Latin, French, German, and Syriac, but the presence of English translations does not make this knowledge necessary.

Another work without ISBN, which expands upon this work is Did Jesus Command Immersion by James Gilchrist Lawson, 1947 Standard Publishing Co.