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

Example Sentences

Before the Gorham case, the Formularies in general were the standard and test, free to both sides, about baptismal regeneration.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

"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

Good evangelical as Fitzjames then was, he felt that there were more important controversies going on than squabbles over baptismal regeneration.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Or does any one say, by baptismal regeneration, we understand an inferior kind or degree of regeneration, the beginning of the change.

From American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon)