Paedocommunion:The Case for Communing Baptized Infants and Young Children

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October 8, 2017
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Good work on this presentation. It is fascinating that this was common practice in the Early Church.  Enlightenment theology viewed faith as a cognitive ascent to an idea, which of course, infants cannot do.  However, faith as "trust" allows infants to be included as they can do nothing but trust the community of faith that their parents bring them.   
Many churches that commune infants place the bread in the wine and then bring it out with a spoon to give to infants - this is common in the Eastern Orthodox.

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This isn’t so much a case for the practice, as an enumeration of the preprepositions of the Presbyterian covenant theologian. How are you the loop the argument is not over whether children ate the Passover or not, but the difference in nature between the old covenant and the new. The debate is whether the fulfillment of old covenant circumcision is new covenant baptism, or the circumcision of the heart in regeneration. That’s the debate. I appreciate the attitude and thoroughness of this presentation, but it assumes the things that are under debate, and concludes accordingly.

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