Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries. Joachim Jeremias - Professor of Theology in the University of Gottingen. Translated by David Cairns. SCM Press Ltd. Bloomsbury Street London.

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Hardcover with protective sleeve

Ex Libris to front-end-paper

Main headings:-

1. The baptism of children of parents joining the Church in the earliest period

2. The baptism of children born to Christian parents in the earliest period

3. The development up to the end of the third century

4. The crisis and how it was overcome

5. Conclusion

112pp including index

Size: 22 x 14.5 x 1.5cm (approx.).

Weight: 300g

First published in English 1960

Joachim Jeremias (20 September 1900 – 6 September 1979) was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar of Near Eastern Studies and university professor for New Testament studies. He was abbot of Bursfelde, 1968–1971.