baptismal regeneration

American  

noun

Theology.

1. the doctrine that regeneration and sanctification are received in and through baptism.

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Etymology

Origin of baptismal regeneration

First recorded in 1645–55

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baptismal regeneration

"I also said that your church believed in baptismal regeneration."

From Dorothy Page by Hatcher, Eldridge B.

What has the conflict about the Hebrew cosmogony, of Genesis, baptismal regeneration, or the validity of orders to do with that serene peace in which religion alone can dwell?

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington

There is a definite allusion to baptismal regeneration in iii.

From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton

He gave me Summer's "Treatise on Apostolic Preaching," by which I was led to give up my remaining Calvinism, and to receive the doctrine of baptismal regeneration.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

She was evangelical in her views, but was not Calvinistic; nor was she a believer in instantaneous conversions, any more than she was in baptismal regeneration.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by Lord, John