Teologiczny i antropologiczny wymiar obrzędów chrzcielnych w Kościele IV wieku

• Authors: Bogdan Czyżewski

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Theological and anthropological significance of baptismal rites in Church of the 4th century

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Holy Baptism in Church in period of the first centuries was considered as an extra ordinary and important event, both in life of the baptized person, as well as in the entire Church community. Almost exact information on baptism in Church of the 4th century is available in existing documents of empathetical discourses on baptism by four great Fathers of the Church: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. John Chrysostom, St. Ambrose of Milan, and Theodor, bishop of Mopsuestia. Thus in this paper I have decided to present only the Baptismal Rites and their theological and anthropological significance. In terms of the mentioned authors’ writings, we can find two parts of the baptismal liturgy where they consist of particular Rites. The first part is devoted to so called the rites preceding a ceremony of baptism, It means to surrender Satan, take off cloths and apply the holy oil before one’s baptism. Another Rite, i.e. taking off clothes of the candidates to be baptized, was significant for the new way of life of a certain human being, and rejection of the old man with his all affairs and matters. Authors of baptismal discourses also paid their attention to application of the holy oil. The second part of Baptismal Rites was related to baptismal immersion itself. First of all, there was the following or­der: to reach the baptismal tank, immerse in waters three times, then leave it and put on the white clothes. The theological interpretation of particular Baptismal Rites in writings of the Church of the 4th century was rather compact. Even in case of some differences available, they were not concerned with the principal aspects, but strictly devoted to the baptism itself in order to understand the ceremony, and all particular order of the Baptismal Rites.

Keywords

PL

chrzest św.; ryty chrzcielne; Cyryl Jerozolimski; Jan Chryzostom; Ambroży z Mediolanu; Teodor z Mopsuestii; teologiczny; antropologiczny

EN

Holy Baptism; Baptismal Rites; Cyril of Jerusalem; John Chrysostom; Ambrose of Milan; Theodor Mopsuestia; theological; anthropological

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Pages: 113-127

Dates

published

2015-07-15

Contributors

author

Bogdan Czyżewski

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.3552