Athanasius of Alexandria on Baptism

C.296 – 373 · GREEK FATHER

NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°

NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located in this corpus

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Strikingly absent from On the Incarnation. The one place it could appear — his quotation of "except a man be born again" — he glosses as the soul recreated in God's image, with no mention of water or rite. Nothing on infants.

SCRIPTURE

JOHN 3:3 · BSB

3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Believers only, on profession of faithVODDIE BAUCHAM · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · JOSH HOWERTON · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · JOHN MACARTHUR · GAVIN ORTLUND · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER · CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Infants included, as a covenant signJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI

Infants included, and effective for regenerationAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE · CHRYSOSTOM · CONSTANTINOPLE I · IRENAEUS · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · NICAEA I · WESLEY

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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Defender of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism through repeated exiles. On the Incarnation is his central work on why God became man.

10 OF 15 POSITIONS QUOTED

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