Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A new or second baptism. It has always been the generally accepted teaching that to perform the ceremony on one known to have been really baptized already is sacrilegious; and what is or may be rebaptism is permissible only because the validity of the previous ceremony has been denied, or because the fact of its administration, or the manner in which it was performed, is disputed or doubtful. Conditional or hypothetical baptism is administered in the Roman Catholic Church to all candidates coming from Protestant churches, under a form beginning “If thou hast not been baptized,” the question of the validity of Protestant baptism being held in abeyance. Such rebaptism is also administered in the Anglican churches in special cases, as where the candidate himself desires it. Baptist churches require rebaptism of all who have not been immersed on profession of faith.
Wiktionary
- n. A second or subsequent baptism; the act or ceremony of rebaptizing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A second baptism.
Examples
“There is no ordinance of "rebaptism" in the Church distinct in nature, form, or purpose, from other baptism; and, therefore, in administering baptism to a subject who has been formerly baptized, the form of the ceremony is exactly the same as in first baptisms.”
“It would be a violation of the Mormon faith to consider his history of molesting children prior to rebaptism in any decision to call him to a position within the church.”
“Mormons who have been excommunicated, as Frank Curtis had been, may work through a period of repentance that ultimately leads to rebaptism and, once again, a clean slate.”
“From the moment of baptism or rebaptism, according to LDS belief, the sins of the past are literally washed away and can no longer be acknowledged.”
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints argued in numerous court filings that rebaptized members were given a “clean slate” through the exercise of the Mormon faith, and to allow a legal examination of actions prior to rebaptism was a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.”
“The court, they argued, should not allow the Scott team to use any information on Frank Curtis prior to his rebaptism.”
“Until conquest and forced rebaptism changed things, the predominate expression of Christianity in Europe was Arian or semi-Arian.”
“Helen, soft Helen, is it indeed in thee that the wild and brilliant "lord of wantonness and ease" is to find the regeneration of his life — the rebaptism of his soul?”
“If, however, a woman were to baptize without any urgency for so doing, there would be no need of rebaptism: as we have said in regard to laymen (A. 3, ad 1).”
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
“Caecilian; the Maximianists had been readmitted without rebaptism.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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