Council of Ephesus on Baptism

431 · ECUMENICAL COUNCIL · DOCUMENT, NOT A PERSON

NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND

NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located on this map

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

Not located. Ephesus issued no creed of its own — canon 7 forbids producing another and ratifies Nicaea instead — and the canons read for this map (1, 4 and 7) with Cyril's Twelve Anathemas are occupied with Nestorius and Celestius. Baptism is not among them. The council's baptismal theology, if it has one, is Nicaea's by ratification rather than its own.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Believers only, on profession of faithVODDIE BAUCHAM · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · BILLY GRAHAM · 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 · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS · WESLEY

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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Affirmed Mary as Theotokos and the unity of Christ's person against Nestorius. Closed creed-making beyond Nicaea, and condemned the Pelagian Celestius.

4 OF 5 POSITIONS QUOTED

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"Council of Ephesus on Baptism", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ephesus-431/baptism (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ephesus-431/baptism).

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