{"id":59347,"date":"2022-02-22T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=59347"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:09:42","slug":"baptismal-formulas-some-historical-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/baptismal-formulas-some-historical-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptismal Formulas: Some Historical Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pray Tell\u00a0<em>reader Max Johnson of Notre Dame University writes the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The earliest use of the baptismal formula as formula for the actual conferring of baptism appears in mid-third century Syrian texts, where it reads, \u201cWE baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Spirit of Holiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the early Syrian Christians were not really baptized.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Rome did not use a baptismal formula at all for centuries, with its earliest \u201cform\u201d being the three-fold question and answer, \u201cDo you believe\u2026I believe\u201d (dip, dunk, or pour).<\/p>\n<p>A little history still goes a long way to alleviating even canonical ignorance!<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: Ethiopian Coptic baptism<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, there is not a baptismal formula that goes back to the apostles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":59348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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