Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: walsh@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Validity of Baptism (Was Re: In Communion with Rome?) Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 07:02:20 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , bobn@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (Bob Niedergerke) writes: > In article our moderator writes: >> >>[I'd be interesting in knowing what groups rebaptize those who have >>already been baptized with water in the name of the Father, Son, and >>Holy Spirit. (I'll make an exception for those who insist on >>immersion, as long as they accept those from other groups who have >>been baptized by immersion.) I haven't run into rebaptism. --clh] > The traditional Eastern Orthodox view is that you cannot baptize if you do not belong to the Church - this non-inclusion extends to members of western religions (Protestant, Catholic) Historically they rebaptized people who had been baptized in western churches. Altho after Peter the Great, the Russians stopped doing this. This has been enforced with varying degrees of strictness and nowadays i don't think it is enforced much, at least not among Orthodox in the U.S. ando.