Baptism in the early church : history, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries

Survey of literature

Washings for purification in Greco-Roman paganism

Words from the bapt- root in classical and Hellenistic Greek

Jewish washings, baptismal movements, and proselyte baptism

Baptism of Jesus I

Baptism of Jesus II

Other references to baptism in the gospels

Baptism in the Pauline epistles

The Acts of the apostles

Baptism in the rest of the New Testament and summary

Apostolic fathers

Christian pseudepigrapha and apocrypha

Apologists

The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish Christianity

Jewish and Christian baptisms

Marcionites, those called gnostics, and related groups

Irenaeus

Clement of Alexandria

Writings attributed to Hippolytus

Carthage : Tertullian

Carthage : Cyprian

Origin and early development of infant baptism

The controversy over "rebaptism" in the third century

Origen

Syria in the third century

Sources at the turn of the fourth century

Egypt in the fourth century

Jerusalem in the fourth century

Writiers in Syriac in the fourth century : Aphrahat

Writiers in Syriac in the fourth century : Ephraem the Syrian. The school of Antioch : Theodore of Mopsuestia

The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom I

The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom II

Miscellaneous sources : church orders and "eunomian" baptism

Cappadocia : Basil the Great

Cappadocia : Gregory of Nazianzus

Cappadocia : Gregory of Nyssa

The delay of baptism : sickbed baptism, believers' baptism, and infant baptism

Milan : Ambrose

Other North Italians

Spain

Some other Latin authors

Egypt : Cyril of Alexandria and the Coptic rite

Writers and writings in Syriac and Armenian

Greek-speaking Syria

Baptism in the Messlaian controversy

Asia Minor and Constantinople

Ravenna and Rome

Gaul and North Africa : Gennadius of Marseilles, some African councils, and Quodvultdeus of Carthage

North Africa : Augustine of Hippo I

North Africa : Augustine of Hippo II

Baptismal fonts : East

Baptismal fonts : West

Conclusions