‘The very deceitfulness of devils’: Firmilian and the Doubtful Baptisms of a Woman possessed by Demons

In the mid-third century, a controversy relating to the validity of baptism by the lapsed broke out between Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Stephen, bishop of Rome. The former maintained that baptisms carried out by those who later lapsed had no validity, but must be repeated by a priest of whose b...

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Main Author: Methuen, Charlotte (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2016
In: Studies in church history
Year: 2016, Volume: 52, Pages: 49-64
Further subjects:B Women's Ordination
B Cyprian
B Possession
B Firmilian
B baptism controversy
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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