Unit 2: Types of Baptisim

Question 1

When do you get Baptism of Desire?

Answer 1

When someone wants to get baptism, but is physically impeded from doing so

Question 2

What do you get Baptism of Blood?

Answer 2

When those are martyred for their faith

Question 3

Who is Infant Baptism for?

Answer 3

Those who have not reached the age of discernment (7)

Question 4

Why is the being the Age of reason important for infant baptisim

Answer 4

Once a person has gained the use of reason they are capable of a personal relationship with God and can take personal responsibility for that relationship

Question 5

Name the a Principle that governs Infant Baptism (1)

Answer 5

Infants must not be delayed for baptism as it is needed for salvation

Question 6

Name the a Principle that governs Infant Baptism (2)

Answer 6

Parents or close relatives must give assurances that the children who will be baptized will be educated in the faith and Christian life

Question 7

What does St Augustine and Origen consider Baptism?

Answer 7

a tradition received from the apostles

Question 8

How long has the church baptizes infants?

Answer 8

Since the earliest Christian community

Question 9

What is needed for an infant to be baptized?

Answer 9

Consent from the parent

Question 10

Name one objection to Infant Baptism and its counter argument (1)

Answer 10

Baptism and Faith

• Baptism is never administered without faith

Question 11

Name one objection to Infant Baptism and its counter argument (2)

Answer 11

Baptism and the Personal Reception of Grace.

Although an infant is incapable of accepting and appropriating grace, as a person, the child is already capable of becoming a child of God

Question 12

Name one objection to Infant Baptism and its counter argument (3)

Answer 12

Baptism restricts the freedom of Infants

• There is no such thing as pure human freedom. The entry into the Christian life is not a form of slavery or constraint but an admittance into true freedom.