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Introduction: the strange history of infant baptism, not least in Scotland -- Origins of infant baptism : child believers' baptism? -- How controversial was the development of infant baptism in the early church? -- The Apostolic Fathers and infant baptism : any advance on the obscurity of the New Testament? -- The meaning and reference of 'One baptism for the remission of sins' in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed -- At what ages were people baptized in the early centuries? -- Augustine and the transformation of baptism -- Monnica's baptism, Augustine's deferred baptism, and Patricius -- Donatist theologoumena in Augustine? : baptism, reviviscence of sins, and unworthy ministers -- Infant dedication in the early church -- The baptism(s) of Julian the Apostate revisited -- Out, in, out : Jesus' blessing of the children and infant baptism -- Infant baptism and the Christian community in Bucer -- George Cassander and the appeal to the Fathers in sixteenth-century debates about infant baptism -- 1 Corinthians 7:14 in Fathers and reformers -- The Donatists in the sixteenth century -- Development and coherence in Calvin's Institutes : the case of baptism (Institutes 4:15-4:16) -- Baptism at the Westminster Assembly -- The baptismal community -- One baptism or two? : reflections on the history of Christian baptism -- Scripture and evangelical diversity with special reference to the baptismal divide -- Baptism in Scotland -- Baptism, Eucharist and ministry (the 'Lima Report') : an evangelical assessment -- The Lima Report : baptism and Eucharist compared -- Habitats of infant baptism -- Children, covenant and the church -- Recovering baptism for a new age of mission -- Christian baptism : where do we go from here?

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