Basil the Great on Baptism
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De Spiritu Sancto 15.35
THE POSITION
What baptism does he states strongly — burial with Christ, the water fulfilling the image of death while the Spirit gives the earnest of life, three immersions with three invocations, and any grace in the water coming not from the water but from the Spirit's presence. Who it is for he never says.
4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Bishop of Caesarea and monastic legislator. Supplied the Trinitarian vocabulary the church still uses — one ousia, three hypostases — and argued the Spirit's deity in De Spiritu Sancto while deliberately never calling him God outright.
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"Basil the Great on Baptism", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/basil/baptism (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/basil/baptism).