An Analysis of Guy de Brès’ Le baston (1559–1565), Chapter 10: Baptism

The chapter on baptism that Guy de Brès added to the fourth edition of Le baston de la foy chrestienne in 1559 is a good illustration of how the work was evolving from a polemical anthology of patristic and biblical quotations to more of a dogmatic compendium. The new chapter also exhibits a number...

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Main Author: Bierma, Lyle D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Church history and religious culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 104, Issue: 2, Pages: 209-220
Further subjects:B Baptism
B Gallican Confession
B Guy de Brès
B Le baston de la foy
B means of grace
B Original Sin
B Infant baptism
B Belgic Confession
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Summary:The chapter on baptism that Guy de Brès added to the fourth edition of Le baston de la foy chrestienne in 1559 is a good illustration of how the work was evolving from a polemical anthology of patristic and biblical quotations to more of a dogmatic compendium. The new chapter also exhibits a number of structural and theological parallels with de Brès’ Belgic Confession of 1561. In its treatment of baptism in relation to original sin and salvation, baptism as a means of grace, and infant baptism, the chapter indicates at the very least that some of the concepts, themes, and theological reasoning that appeared in the Belgic Confession in 1561 were already present, sometimes in fairly developed form, in Le baston two years earlier.
ISSN:1871-2428
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18712428-10402012