Christening and the Giving of a Name in Baptism: Some Linguistic Reflections
This article uses investigations into how words for baptism, especially the use of christen and christening as well as baptize and baptism, changed over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in order to highlight aspects of traditional English thought about baptism. It uses corpus-b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2016]
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Practical theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-57 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Baptism
B Language B corpus linguistics B Christening B Naming |
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| Summary: | This article uses investigations into how words for baptism, especially the use of christen and christening as well as baptize and baptism, changed over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in order to highlight aspects of traditional English thought about baptism. It uses corpus-based methods of linguistic enquiry to investigate patterns of language in a variety of types of texts from this period to see how language use changed over this critical period of the Reformation. It applies these ideas, especially the importance of naming and group identity, to debates about baptism in the Church of England today. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2016.1149961 |