Holy Baptism

• ABOUT:
  • Anonymous (Coptic): The Treatise on the Symbolics of Baptism and the Elements. Fragments of the Coptic text with English translation in Alla I. Elanskaya: The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, [Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994], p. 167.

• ABOUT: History:
  • Henry F. Brown: Baptism through the Centuries, (1965). Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific, 1965. Slight Protestant (possibly Baptist) slant.

• ABOUT: History: Regional:
  • T. C. Akeley: Christian Initiation in Spain, c. 300-1100, (1967). London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1967.
  • Thomas M. Finn: Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate -- Italy, North Africa, and Egypt, (1992). Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1992.

• INFANT BAPTISM: In defence of:
  • Oscar Cullmann: Baptism in the New Testament, (1950). London: SCM, 1961. Protestant author.

• THE BAPTISM OF THE APOSTLES: The fact that Scripture does not expressly mention the apostles being baptised with water has drawn some comment over the centuries.
  • St. Sophronius of Jerusalem: De baptismate Apostolorum (On the Baptism of the Apostles). PG 87(III):3371. Fragmentary; also attributed to Theodoret (PG 92:1075).