RELG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hebrew Calendar, Miaphysitism, Glossolalia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Ian H Henderson, Hadi Fakhoury, Steven Lapidus

Document Summary

*warning: belief that religions are about morality (especially in the west, about chrisianity). In chrisianity, there is a paricular use of water. Nicene creed take as many baths as you want, but only one of those baths, once in your life, will be your bapism. Water might be poured, might be sprinkled, might be immerged, etc. Common feature (speciically chrisians) formula of words. I bapized into jesus (or into god, diferent formulaions, but same idea). Ritual of transforming that person"s idenity, to some extent, into another person. Versions of chrisianity that bapized adults, mainly, others bapized babies. Originally: most chrisians were converted, so adults were bapized. People postponing their bapism, especially if you strongly associated bapism with geing rid of your sins and change of idenity. In some socieies, adult bapism seems to make more sense (consent of person). Some will even re-bapized people who were bapized as babies.